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- December 23
- December 22
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- What time is the NASA Parker Solar Probe's closest sun flyby ever on Christmas Eve?
- Space2Sea Antarctica: William Shatner, Neil deGrasse Tyson and NASA astronauts talk exploration and science from the Drake Passage
- Daffy Duck's 'full moon' and Porky Pig fend off alien invasion in 'The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie' (trailer)
- You can now wear an Apollo Guidance Computer keypad as a wristwatch
- December 21
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- See how 'Ahsoka' brought 'Clone Wars' Anakin Skywalker to live-action in this behind-the-scenes clip (exclusive video)
- Planes, drones or UFOs: What are people seeing in the New Jersey sky?
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 141 — Holiday Special 2024
- Every upcoming 'Star Wars' movie officially announced
- Winter solstice 2024 brings shortest day of the year to Northern Hemisphere today
- Astronauts on NASA's moon-orbiting Gateway space station will wear smart undershirts to stay healthy
- December 20
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- SpaceX launches 30 satellites on Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission (video)
- Space2Sea Antarctica: A student journalist's expedition to bottom of the world begins
- Dreaming of a white Christmas? Snow is likely in these US states according to NOAA climate data
- Abort! SpaceX calls off launch of 'MicroGEO' satellites at last second (video)
- Axiom's private space station is coming sooner than we thought
- Watch NASA's Artemis Orion moon spacecraft blow its top during testing (video)
- NASA Mars probe spies dusty, retired Insight lander from orbit (photo)
- Rocket Lab scrubs Strix radar satellite launch for Synspective over 'sensor data'
- Hubble's 'impossible' planet explained? Gas giants may have formed fast in early universe
- NASA's Hubble and Chandra telescopes discover a strange 'sideways' black hole in a cosmic crime scene (image)
- The Ursid meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here's what to expect from the final 'shooting stars' of 2024
- US Space Force 5 years later: What has it accomplished so far, and where does it go from here?
- Rocket Lab launches private Earth-imaging satellite to orbit on its final flight of 2024 (video)
- December 19
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- Russian cosmonauts install X-ray detector, jettison trash on spacewalk outside ISS
- SpaceX inks deal with Vast to launch 2 astronaut missions to the ISS
- NASA space telescopes give Christmas Tree Cluster a festive makeover (photos)
- Looking back at '2010', the criminally-underrated sequel to '2001: A Space Odyssey'
- It's a bird! It's a plane! It's the 1st fantastic trailer for James Gunn's 'Superman!'
- BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters
- SpaceX will launch Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander to the moon in mid-January with these 10 NASA payloads
- 'Missing link' black hole found? Not so fast, new study says
- Did the 'Lower Decks' finale just set up an exciting new 'Star Trek' spin-off?
- Watch Russian cosmonauts install new X-ray detector during ISS spacewalk today (video)
- This baby exoplanet is made of different stuff than its birth cloud
- Puffy white dwarfs could shed light on mysterious dark matter. Here's how.
- Double moon mission! SpaceX to launch 2 private lunar landers in January
- December 18
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- Private Japanese rocket explodes after liftoff in its 2nd launch failure of 2024 (photos)
- Space2Sea Voyage of Legends in Antarctica: Join William Shatner, Neil deGrasse Tyson, former NASA astronauts and more in free webinar on space and science
- James Webb Space Telescope catches monster black hole napping after 'overeating' in the early universe
- Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere
- 'Exodus' looks like a next-gen Mass Effect, but with armored space bears (trailer)
- The Imperial Probe Droid is one of the best Lego Star Wars sets we have reviewed and you can now pick it up for a low price
- The moon may be 100 million years older than we thought
- Hubble trouble or Superbubble? Astronomers need to escape the 'supervoid' to solve cosmology crisis
- Watch the sun unleash 'extremely rare' solar storm in explosive eruption (video)
- 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' episode 4: What happened on At Achrann?
- China launches 1st set of spacecraft for planned 13,000-satellite broadband constellation (photo)
- Chinese astronauts perform record-breaking 9-hour spacewalk outside Tiangong space station (video)
- Human artifacts abandoned on Mars should be cataloged to track our migration beyond Earth
- Boeing Starliner astronauts will return to Earth in March 2025 after new NASA, SpaceX delay
- December 17
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- SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 test flight gets FAA launch license. But when will it fly?
- SpaceX wants Starbase to become an official city in Texas
- SpaceX test-fires Starship spacecraft again ahead of Flight 7 launch (video)
- You ain’t seen nothing yet! 'The Outer Worlds 2' gets wild new trailer at The Game Awards
- Webb mail: US Priority Mail stamps to again star deep space images in 2025
- 'Edge of Space': Ambitious short film chronicles daring flight of X-15 rocket plane test pilot (video)
- Astronomers discover 1st binary stars orbiting supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way
- 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' featurette reveals the magic behind the massive stop-motion Mama Crab (video)
- SpaceX launches 2 mPOWER satellites from Florida on 2nd leg of spaceflight doubleheader (video)
- SpaceX launches 6th batch of next-gen US spy satellites from California (video)
- NASA astronaut Suni Williams poses with adorable tentacle-armed Astrobee robot on ISS (photo)
- Meet Endurance, a pioneering NASA moon rover designed to survive the frigid lunar night
- December 16
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- James Webb Space Telescope witnesses Firefly Sparkle galaxy 'being assembled brick by brick' (image, video)
- 'Dune: Prophecy' 'In Blood, Truth:' Tula plays Frankenstein and Desmond's twisted origins exposed
- Watch SpaceX Starship test fire engines ahead of flight 7 launch (video)
- SpaceX’s 31st Dragon cargo capsule returns to Earth with splashdown off Florida coast
- 1st monster black hole ever pictured erupts with surprise gamma-ray explosion
- Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thought
- This red giant star has starspots larger than the entire sun
- December full moon 2024: Cold Moon puts on a dazzling show for skywatchers worldwide (photos)
- See the moon meet up with Mars this in the night sky tonight
- 'Silo' Season 2 'Descent': The mystery spirals deeper as we learn Solo's real name — or do we?
- Who is Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick for NASA chief?
- December 15
- December 14
- December 13
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- NASA astronaut uses homemade star tracker to take incredible deep space photo from ISS
- SpaceX rolls 7th Starship spacecraft out for testing ahead of next launch (photos)
- The Game Awards 2024: All the new space and sci-fi games at the show
- SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite in 'rapid response' demo for US Space Force (video)
- December full moon shines bright this weekend: How to see the last full moon of 2024
- SpaceX launches 22 Starlink internet satellites from California, lands rocket at sea (video)
- How to watch the Geminid meteor shower 2024 live online tonight (Dec. 13)
- NASA's Mars exploration plans need 'paradigm shifts' to succeed, report finds
- Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve
- Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight! Here's how to see one of the best meteor showers of the year
- 'Tragedy of the commons' in space: We need to act now to prevent an orbital debris crisis, scientists say
- 'Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet' is Naughty Dog's new sci-fi adventure game set on a distant planet (trailer)
- Up and over! NASA's Mars rover Perseverance reaches rim of its Jezero Crater home (video)
- Galaxy-size jet from monster black hole blasts mystery object in deep space (video)
- December 12
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- Astronomers discover 7 new 'dark comets,' but what exactly are they?
- India practices pulling its Gaganyaan astronaut capsule out of the sea (photos)
- Panama, Austria sign Artemis Accords, bringing tally to 50 nations
- Violent superflares explode from sun-like stars every 100 years
- Meteor strikes on the moon! Astronomer captures possible Geminid lunar impacts (videos)
- Fireball! Brilliant meteor streaks across Indiana’s early-morning sky (videos)
- 'SALLY' at Sundance: NatGeo film to reveal 'hidden love' of 1st US woman in space
- 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' brings back fan-favorite characters for 'Multiverse of Madness'-style hijinks in latest episode
- What causes volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io? Scientists aren't so sure anymore
- 'Grand' spiral galaxy dazzles in new Hubble Telescope photo
- 'Warhammer 40,000' TV series locked and loaded at Amazon with Henry Cavill set to star
- Dramatic changes on Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter revealed in 10 years of Hubble Telescope images (video)
- December 11
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- Japanese company ispace plans to land helium-3 mining missions on the moon
- SpaceX launch of NASA's new 3D-sky-mapping satellite set for February 2025
- 'We are preparing to make history': NASA's Parker Solar Probe gears up for epic sun flyby on Christmas Eve
- ORCs in space! Astronomers find another vast odd radio circle in 'completely unexpected discovery'
- Tom Hanks bringing 'The Moonwalkers' to Houston for US premiere in 2025
- After accident on Mars, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter could live on as a weather station for 20 years
- Seismometers track atmospheric shock waves from incoming space debris
- 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' episode 3: What's Jod Na Nawood's true identity?
- 2 huge asteroid strikes 36 million years ago didn't change Earth's climate over the long haul, study finds
- 'MechWarrior 5: Clans' offers the stompy robot fights you expect, and a surprisingly strong story that you probably don't
- NASA will fly F-15s through supersonic shock waves behind its experimental X-59 jet
- Powerful solar storms are a nightmare for farmers. 'Our tractors acted like they were demon possessed'
- Carbon dioxide rivers? Ancient Mars liquid may not all have been water
- December 10
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- Rocket Lab's secretive launch last month was a hypersonic test for the US military (photos)
- Sunny days on Mars come with a weather warning: Dust storms ahead!
- Large Hadron Collider finds 1st evidence of the heaviest antimatter particle yet
- SpaceX rocket launch tops the Christmas tree at Vandenberg Space Force Base (photo)
- Cosmic rays may complicate the quest to find life on Mars
- How the 'Great Filter' could explain why we haven't found intelligent aliens
- NASA tests high-tech software for future mission to search for life on Jupiter's moon Europa
- Learn how Pike and Number One met at Starfleet Academy in 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Asylum' (exclusive)
- Geminid meteor shower fills the sky with 'shooting stars' in spectacular time-lapse photos
- Extremely rare, black 'anti-auroras' paint luminous 'letter E' above Alaska
- James Webb Space Telescope finds smallest asteroids ever seen between Mars and Jupiter
- 'Dune: Prophecy' 'Twice Born' — Plans go awry, people die, and what's behind those blue eyes?
- 100th woman in space, Emily Calandrelli, stands up to 'small men' on the internet: 'I should have expected this.'
- December 9
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- An explosive new 'Star Trek: Section 31' trailer just dropped and now we can't wait until 2025 (video)
- SpaceX test-fires Super Heavy booster for 7th Starship launch (video, photos)
- Hubble Telescope sees 'weird things' in closest-ever look at a quasar from monster black hole
- The moon's oldest crater is super round - and that's great news for NASA's Artemis astronauts
- Not all stars with black hole companions die gruesome deaths, scientists say
- Predicting future floods: New AI tool gives realistic satellite-like views
- Discovery! Newfound exoplanet is 4th 'hot Neptune' ever found
- 'Silo' Season 2: 'The Harmonium': Does Judge Meadows get her wish to go outside?
- 'Our understanding of the universe may be incomplete': James Webb Space Telescope data suggests we need a 'new cosmic feature' to explain it all
- Geminid meteor shower peaks this week: Here's what to expect from the last big meteor shower of the year
- Are there hidden oceans inside the moons of Uranus? Their wobbles could tell us
- Sun unleashes surprise X-class solar flare triggering radio blackout over southern Africa (video)
- A 'giant' rising in the desert: World's largest telescope comes together (photo)
- December 8
- December 7
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- The yearning for Uranus: A far-out world with a tale to tell
- Lilo & Stitch live-action remake: Release date, plot, & everything we know
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 139 — Look to the Skies
- We are fast approaching the sun's 'battle zone' — and it could be even worse than solar maximum, experts warn
- 'Ominous milestone for the planet': Arctic Ocean's 1st ice-free day could be just 3 years away, alarming study finds
- How big can 'ultramassive' black holes get? Scientists may have the answer
- December 6
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- Mars rover Perseverance sends home postcard from scenic 'Pico Turquino' (photo)
- Car-size asteroid will zip between Earth and the moon tonight
- Scientists find secret comet in the asteroid belt — how many others are there?
- See Jupiter at its biggest and brightest this weekend
- 'Interstellar' returns from deep space to IMAX theaters starting today for 10th anniversary
- Sweeping gravitational wave map of the universe could reveal hidden black holes
- Iran launches military satellite, sending nation's largest-ever payload to orbit: reports
- Immersive sci-fi spaceport experience Interstellar Arc is coming to Las Vegas in 2025
- Meet 'Blackbird': A flying taxi that spins and moves in any direction thanks to new propulsion system
- Drones look to the stars to make themselves stealthier
- Geminid meteor shower peaks Dec. 13 alongside a bright moon. Here's how to see it
- Dwarf planet Ceres could be rich in organics, defunct spacecraft data reveals
- Over 10,000 exploding stars catalogued by groundbreaking Zwicky Transient Facility
- Watch the sun rise on SpaceX's Crew Dragon as the Milky Way fades into darkness in mesmerizing ISS video
- Watch SpaceX's 31st Dragon cargo capsule head back to Earth today after delays (video)
- December 5
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- 'Spectacular' asteroid blazes over Siberia just hours after it was detected
- Comets probably delivered Earth its water billions of years ago, new study reveals
- NASA delays Artemis 2 moon mission to 2026, Artemis 3 astronaut landing to mid-2027
- The 'Alien: Romulus' VHS release is the perfect bit of '80s nostalgia
- Gigantic 'spiderwebs' on Mars are the next big target for NASA's Curiosity rover, agency reveals
- China debuts $553 million spaceport with launch of new Long March-12 rocket (video)
- Astrophotographer captures colorful portrait of the Lion Nebula in a glowing field of hydrogen gas
- Novice skywatchers would love this Hexeum telescope as a Christmas gift and it's now just $79.99 — which is cheaper than Black Friday
- Satellites find likely cause of mysterious African elephant deaths of 2020
- 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' season 5 episode 8 flips the script and visits the 'Upper Decks'
- How 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' uses Spielberg magic to capture the spirit of the original trilogy
- Trump may cancel NASA's powerful SLS moon rocket – here's what that would mean for Elon Musk and the future of space travel
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Sirius XM radio satellite (video)
- 'It's like taking a picture of lightning': How astronomers raced to track the smallest asteroid ever seen
- Here's how SpaceX's 6th Starship megarocket launch looked from the ISS (video)
- SpaceX completes 1st Starlink direct-to-cell constellation with launch from California (video)
- December 4
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- NASA will update us all on its Artemis moon landing program on Dec. 5. Here's how to watch live.
- Spiderweb protocluster is filled with baby galaxies, James Webb Space Telescope reveals (image)
- What was the War of the Thinking Machines in 'Dune: Prophecy'?
- James Webb Space Telescope discovers 4th exoplanet in sweet triple 'super puff' star system
- Asteroid the size of 3 million elephants zooms past Earth
- Trump picks billionaire private SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman to lead NASA
- Solar maximum just knocked 3 satellites out of orbit. Here's why more may be on the way.
- Behold! These gorgeous never-before-seen space images are from a NASA space telescope that should have died long ago
- Why we can't just name a quasi-moon 'Moony McMoonface'
- See the moon and Venus take a sunset stroll through the night sky tonight
- Europe's Vega-C rocket launches Earth-observation satellite on 1st liftoff since 2022 failure (video)
- Will the International Space Station's 2031 death dive cause pollution problems?
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches on record-breaking 24th flight (video)
- December 3
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- 'Ahsoka' season 1 and 'The Mandalorian' season 3 get stunning 4K steelbook releases
- India launches European Proba-3 satellites to create artificial eclipses in space (video)
- Inside the Hubble Space Telescope's 23-year-long look at a beautiful blue galaxy
- Directive 8020: Everything we know about Supermassive's sci-fi horror game
- Get a sneak peek at 'Star Trek' illustrated short story anthology beaming up later this month (exclusive)
- 'Galaxy Quest' blasts back onto our screens with 25th anniversary 4K Blu-ray release
- Are planet-killing black holes hiding inside your cat?
- Building blocks: How China plans to make bricks on the moon for lunar habitats
- Tiny asteroid detected hours before hitting Earth to become 4th 'imminent impactor' of 2024
- The shape of light: Scientists reveal image of an individual photon for 1st time ever
- 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' episodes 1 & 2: What's the secret of At Attin?
- Handle on history: Knives embedded with rocket parts honor 45 years of Ariane launches
- Mysterious fast radio bursts could be caused by asteroids slamming into dead stars
- Could dark matter have been forged in a 'Dark Big Bang?'
- Cosmic rays could help assess hidden war damage in Ukraine
- December 2
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- Broken water pipe knocks out data processing for NASA sun-studying spacecraft
- BepiColombo probe captures haunting Mercury image on 5th of 6 gravity assist flybys (photo)
- Did Venus ever have oceans to support life, or was it 'born hot'?
- 7 hours to go! Lowest price Nikon binoculars are FINALLY cheaper on Cyber Monday
- SETI tracks distorted signals from distant pulsars with data from destroyed Arecibo Observatory
- Strange "quasi-moon" of Earth will get one of these 7 names
- 'Halo 2' 20 years later: The sequel that changed gaming forever
- Cyber Monday drone deal: Save $110 on the DJI Avata
- There are 4000 reasons you should grab this Cyber Monday beginner drone deal
- Satellites spy red-hot lava threaten Iceland's Blue Lagoon
- Beginner telescope for kids now under $100 for Cyber Monday 2024
- One of the best beginner drones (according to our drone expert) is over $90 cheaper for Cyber Monday
- Fruit flies in space! Chinese astronauts show off experiment on Tiangong space station (video)
- The skywatching butler I always wanted — Get $500 off this Unistellar smart telescope
- Hurry! Save hundreds on these 9 telescopes with these last-chance Cyber Monday deals!
- Cyber Monday Meta Quest 3 deal: Get a free Batman game and a three-month trial of Meta Quest Plus.
- China reveals secrets of 1st sample taken from the far side of the moon — and it contains a volcanic surprise
- Hubble Telescope peeks at star with planet-forming disk that gets 3 times hotter than the sun
- Where's the Blaze Star? Why the overdue 'new star' T Coronae Borealis has yet to light up the night sky
- 'Dune: Prophecy:' 'Sisterhood Above All:' Are Valya and Tula hiding forbidden technology?
- World's 2nd fastest supercomputer runs largest-ever simulation of the universe
- December 1
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- Call me crazy but I'd fall for this Cyber Monday star projector deal, even if it's fake
- Get a year of Peacock for just $19.99 in this Cyber Monday streaming deal
- This Hexeum telescope is at its lowest price ever at just $93 on Amazon this Cyber Monday
- Star Wars: Hunters is coming to PC in early 2025
- My go-to telescope for high-definition views of the solar system is this Sky-Watcher refractor with nearly $500 off this Cyber Monday
- Declassified spy satellite images reveal 1,400-year-old battle site in Iraq that set off the Muslim conquest
- Huge PSVR 2 headset Cyber Monday deal: Save $200
- New moon December 2024: A young moon passes Venus
