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- February 21
- February 20
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- 'Jupiter Ascending' came out 10 years ago, and we're still not sure how The Matrix creators' space opera went so wrong
- Some baby stars in ancient stellar nurseries were born in 'fluffy' cosmic blankets
- The ISS should be deorbited 'as soon as possible,' Elon Musk says: 'Let's go to Mars'
- NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from an ancient Red Planet lake (images)
- Life as we don't know it: Some aliens may need sulfuric acid like we need water
- Our favorite novelty Astronaut star projector is now 20% off
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket debris creates dramatic fireball over Europe, crashes in Poland (video)
- Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)
- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin unveils crew for 10th space tourism launch
- 'Impossible' pair of vampire stars discovered by Einstein Probe's X-ray vision
- NASA massively lowers impact risk of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 to 1 in 360
- Musk and Trump repeat false 'stranded' Starliner astronauts narrative, but they are not stranded
- What is dark energy? Exploding white dwarf stars may help us crack the case
- February 19
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- Leaving Pluto in the dust: New Horizons probe gearing up for epic crossing of 'termination shock'
- Black holes snacking on small stars create particle accelerators that bombard Earth with cosmic rays
- Over 1,000 NASA employees saved from dismissal as Trump downsizes federal workforce
- The next giant leap? How jumping could help astronauts train for trips to the moon and Mars
- Largest-ever discovery of 'missing link' black holes revealed by dark energy camera (video)
- Want a workout? Try walking to the top of the world's largest telescope (photo)
- Blue Ghost moon lander lowers its orbit to fly closer to the lunar surface (video)
- 7 planets are aligned in the night sky right now. But what's that mean for science?
- I want to believe — but yet another massive search for alien technosignatures just turned up nothing
- February 18
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- Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA's SLS moon rocket: reports
- 'Captain America: Brave New World' introduces adamantium into the MCU, but did it come from space in the comics?
- Japan's Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of historic touchdown try (photo)
- Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later
- Rocket Lab launches sharp-eyed Earth-observation satellite to orbit (video)
- SpaceX Starlink mission lands rocket off coast of The Bahamas for 1st time (video)
- At $800 off, this powerful Nikon Z8 mirrorless camera has never been cheaper, just in time for March's lunar eclipse
- James Webb Space Telescope finds our Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole blowing bubbles (image, video)
- Exoplanet with iron rain has violent winds 'like something out of science fiction'
- Imagine Dragons 'Starfield' video game anthem will beam to Earth from the moon
- Save a massive 36% on the Star Wars Black Series Force FX Elite Lightsaber
- Cosmic voids may explain the universe's acceleration without dark energy
- 3D-printed 'hydrogels' could be future space radiation shields for astronaut trips to Mars
- James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a cosmic 'Phoenix' cools off to birth stars
- February 17
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- 'Star Trek: Section 31' got us thinking... Should you have to do your homework before you watch a movie?
- Scientists accidentally discover Earth's inner core is less solid than expected
- The Winter Triangle meets the 'Mars Triangle' in the night sky this month
- Does the moon look smaller tonight? Here's why a 'micromoon' rises
- Watch the sun erupt in new images from NOAA's weather satellite
- Some planet-forming stars never 'grow up' and lose their 'Peter Pan' disks
- Astronomers realize mysterious TV signal in their data bounced off an airplane
- February 16
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- February 14
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- Boeing Starliner astronauts on the ISS set the story straight: 'We don't feel stranded'
- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin laying off 1,000 employees: reports
- What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like (images)
- Welcome to the moon! Firefly's Blue Ghost lander reaches lunar orbit (video, photos)
- How Sen's 4K live cameras on the ISS offer a new perspective from space (op-ed)
- Astronomers have brought you a space Valentine: The Tarantula of the cosmos
- Black holes vibe together in a cosmic love story for Valentine's Day written in the stars
- Meet 'Tansuo' and 'Wangyu,' China's next moon rover and astronaut spacesuit (video)
- Fastest exoplanet ever is dragged through space at 1.2 million mph by hypervelocity star
- February 13
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- SpaceX test-fires Starship megarocket and Super Heavy booster ahead of next launch (video, photos)
- Sony's latest State of Play highlights three incredible sci-fi games coming to PlayStation 5
- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin targeting late spring for 2nd launch of powerful New Glenn rocket
- Japan's Resilience lunar lander prepares for 1st swing around the moon
- Perseverance rover's Mars samples show traces of ancient water, but NASA needs them on Earth to seek signs of life
- Moon or Mars? Why not both, acting NASA head Janet Petro says
- I test and review Lego sets for a living and Lego's 25th Anniversary R2-D2 is now one of the lowest prices I've ever seen it
- 'It was a miracle.' Amazing tales of dead spacecraft that came back to life
- 'Iridescent' clouds on Mars captured in Martian twilight in stunning NASA rover images (video)
- Total lunar eclipse March 2025: Live updates
- Total lunar eclipse brings a Blood Moon to North America next month. Here's how to see it
- February's Full Snow Moon dazzles in a flurry of stunning photos from around the world
- NASA denies setting 'new bans' for employees amid reports of removing LGBTQI+ symbols from offices
- February 12
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- Tiny plasma jets on the sun drive the elusive solar wind, Europe's Solar Orbiter reveals
- Gamma rays create Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World, but how do they work in the real world?
- Win a chance to see a SpaceX rocket launch thanks to Bethesda, creators of 'Starfield'
- Scientists detect highest-energy ghost particle ever seen — where did it come from?
- February's full moon shines bright tonight. Here's what to expect from the Snow Moon
- Valentine's Day Aurora Alert: Geomagnetic storm could bring northern lights as far south as Michigan and Maine tonight and tomorrow
- SpaceX rocket launch spawns dazzling 'space jellyfish' in evening sky (photos)
- Save big on one of the best star projectors you can buy, the Pococo Galaxy Star Projector
- Scientist image 3-million-light-year-long 'cosmic web' ensnaring 2 galaxies for 1st time
- Gravitational waves could turn colliding neutron stars into 'cosmic tuning forks'
- NASA moves up return date for Boeing Starliner astronauts after swapping SpaceX Dragon spacecraft
- February 11
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- NASA picks SpaceX to launch Pandora exoplanet mission
- SpaceX rocket launches 21 Starlink satellites into orbit, then lands at sea (video)
- NASA allegedly orders employees to purge workspaces of LGBTQI+ symbols: Report
- How to watch 'Captain America: Brave New World': Catch it in theaters, and later stream on Disney Plus
- Mysterious cosmic lights turn out to be 2 undiscovered supernova remnants
- There was nearly 1 rocket launch attempt every 34 hours in 2024 — this year will be even busier
- Huge solar storm in May 2024 spawned 2 new radiation belts around Earth
- Scientists alarmed as Rubin Observatory changes biography of astronomer Vera Rubin amid Trump's push to end DEI efforts
- What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?
- Save a massive 63% on a year of Peacock TV now $29.99
- Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet breaks sound barrier 3 times on final test flight (video, photos)
- SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video, photos)
- February 10
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- Risks with current Artemis 3 moon landing plan 'may be too high,' NASA safety group says
- What was the mysterious space signal scientists discovered in 2024? Here are some possibilities
- Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander leaves Earth orbit to head for the moon
- How to watch NASA's 1st Twitch stream from the ISS this week
- AI can now replicate itself — a milestone that has experts terrified
- Did Covid lockdowns really cause temperatures on the moon to drop?
- Scientists 'dust for fingerprints' around a young star as it births exoplanets
- Euclid 'dark universe' telescope discovers stunning Einstein ring in warped space-time (image)
- Students' contest-winning pen, paint and poetry works shown aboard International Space Station
- Live-action 'Gundam' movie enters full production as Bandai drops Netflix to partner with Legendary Pictures
- Who is Janet Petro, Trump's pick for acting NASA administrator?
- Crater-diving hopper 'Gracie' will launch to the moon aboard private Athena lander this month
- February 9
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- Auction offers Neil Armstrong's reply to NASA engineer's Apollo 11 mission patch ideas
- World's fastest supercomputer 'El Capitan' goes online — it will be used to secure the US nuclear stockpile and in other classified research
- NASA and General Atomics test nuclear fuel for future moon and Mars missions
- Space weather scales are outdated and confusing. Here's what NOAA scientists are doing about it
- See Mars next to a nearly full moon in the sky Feb. 9
- February 8
- February 7
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- Vast Space now aims for 2026 launch of Haven-1 space station after key milestone (photos)
- 1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang
- 'Marsquakes' may solve 50-year-old mystery about the Red Planet
- Supernova 'rains' could give rise to mysteriously magnetic dead stars
- Tiny spacecraft could travel across interstellar space with this 'trampoline' lightsail
- Black holes could 'bend it like Beckham' to reveal hidden asymmetries of the universe
- SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites from Florida (video)
- The DJI Mini 4k, one of the best beginner drones, is 20% off
- Scientists say 2 asteroids may actually be fragments of destroyed planets from our early solar system
- Odds of an asteroid impact in 2032 just went up. Here's why experts say you shouldn't worry
- Hopping robot will hunt for moon water on China's Chang'e 7 lunar mission in 2026
- 'Every episode this season feels like it could be a season finale' boasts 'Invincible' creator as Season 3 debuts (interview)
- New fast radio burst detector could sift through 'a whole beach of sand' to solve big cosmic mystery
- February 6
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- Putin axes Yuri Borisov, head of Russia's space agency
- What brand of golf ball did Alan Shepard hit off the moon? The world may never know
- Perseverance Mars rover finds 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on Red Planet's Silver Mountain
- NASA's Europa Clipper snaps its 1st starry image en route to Jupiter's icy moon
- Europe signs contract for its 1st moon lander, Argonaut
- NASA satellites catch Earth's magnetic field making music
- Scientists discover largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe — its twice as long as our galaxy
- Save 44% on a Disney Plus and Hulu duo subscription
- James Webb Space Telescope images bacteria-size dust grains — they'll likely turn into exoplanets
- Private FLIP moon rover replaces NASA's cancelled VIPER on 2025 lunar south pole mission
- Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds
- The moon will be unusually high in the sky tonight. Here's why
- February 5
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- 'This idea that it takes like 250 years for Pluto to orbit the sun, I think that's just bizarre.' Star Trek scion Adam Nimoy talks our favorite (dwarf) planet for 'I Heart Pluto' festival
- 'No one really knows that the Emperor is evil': 'Star Wars: The Mask of Fear' author on the early days of the Empire and the birth of the Rebellion (Interview)
- Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
- Astronomers unsure what caused 'weird explosion' seen by Einstein Probe's X-ray eye
- NASA just gave these 9 companies $24 million to dream up Artemis moon mission tech
- The Fantastic Four meets Saturn V: 'First Steps' trailer launched at rocket center
- NASA's launching a new sun mission this month: 'PUNCH is going to see a total solar eclipse'
- Save $300 on the VIVE XR Elite, one of the best VR headsets on the market
- Comet G3 (ATLAS) looks breathtaking above future home of world's largest telescope (photos)
- German company Atmos launching 1st cargo-return capsule on upcoming SpaceX mission
- See the moon and Jupiter grab 'the Bull' by the horns this week
- Astronauts on the ISS experience vision changes — should Mars travelers be worried?
- February 4
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- Hubble Space Telescope spots a spectacular Bullseye in deep space (image)
- SpaceX to launch water-hunting moon probe 'Lunar Trailblazer' on Feb. 26
- SpaceX launches 2 Maxar Earth-observing satellites to orbit (video, photos)
- Sci-fi thriller 'Ash' gets terrifying 1st trailer that's dripping with Lovecraftian cosmic horror vibes
- VIPER back from the dead? NASA asks US companies to partner on ice-hunting moon rover
- Blue Origin mimics moon gravity on 1st-of-its-kind New Shepard research rocket launch (video)
- Bullet-fast moon rocks carved 2 lunar gorges deeper than the Grand Canyon
- Scientists discover black holes spinning unexpectedly fast: 'You’re essentially looking at its fossil record'
- The moon will cover the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades this week. Here's how to see it
- 'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' takes off with 1st awe-inspiring trailer
- New record coming? 5 rockets scheduled to launch in next 24 hours
- February 3
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- Blue Origin to launch New Shepard moon-gravity mission on Feb. 4 after glitch
- Newly-launched Indian satellite left stranded by propulsion problem
- 'Roasting marshmallow' exoplanet is so hot, it rains metal. How did it form?
- Is the moon still geologically active? Evidence says it's possible
- NASA pauses work by key space science groups amid Trump executive orders
- Trump administration removes Apollo moon rock from White House Oval Office
- A red moon: Will the next 'Sputnik Moment' be made in China?
- Rocket Lab launches 'Internet of Things' satellites from New Zealand (video)
- Falling space debris is a growing worry for aircraft, new research suggests
- Trump wants the US to land astronauts on Mars soon. Could it happen by 2029?
- February 2
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- SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites from Florida on 15th launch of 2025 (video)
- A year in isolation: 366-day mock moon mission wraps up in Russia
- Astronaut's mission 'back to Earth' lands on colorful spacesuit patch
- Magnificent communication: Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin tests Verizon satellite service in new ad
- Giant ice age landforms discovered deep beneath North Sea revealed in amazing detail
- How much did SpaceX's Starship Flight 7 explosion pollute the atmosphere?
- February 1
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- SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video)
- 'Star Trek: Section 31''s costume design was literally 'Star Trek by Balenciaga' (interview)
- Japan launches navigation satellite on nation's 1st mission of 2025 (video)
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 146 — All the Way With USRA
- Planetary parade February 2025: When, where and how to see it
