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- April 4
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- Jared Isaacman, Trump's pick for NASA chief, to get Senate confirmation hearing on April 9
- NASA's Perseverance rover watches as 2 Mars dust devils merge into 1 (video)
- How to see Venus light the sky as the bright 'morning star' through fall 2025
- Scientists are using stellar 'quakes' to peer inside stars
- The Lego Marvel Spider-Man Daily Bugle set is one of the largest Lego sets in the Lego Marvel range — now at one of the lowest prices we've seen in years
- SpaceX's private Fram2 astronauts splash down on Earth, ending historic polar orbit expedition
- Astronaut's new NASA portrait is a blast from the past: Space photo of the day
- Rare colorful lightning caught on camera by ISS astronaut. 'OK, this is kind of out there'
- 'Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions' brings co-op space adventures to Nintendo Switch 2 (and other platforms) in 2026 (video)
- Watch 'potentially hazardous' asteroid fly near Earth this weekend in this free livestream
- Vanguard 1 is the oldest satellite orbiting Earth. Scientists want to bring it home after 67 years
- Scientists may have just found the driving force behind Venus' volcanos
- JWST finds spiral galaxy about 5 times more massive than Milky Way — scientists call it 'Big Wheel'
- Watch SpaceX's history-making Fram2 astronaut mission return to Earth today
- SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites to orbit from California
- April 3
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- SpinLaunch wants to send 250 broadband 'microsatellites' to orbit with a single launch
- I'm going to a huge astronomy expo to see the latest telescope tech this weekend. I won't be alone.
- NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts reveal moon mission patch to honor 'AII'
- SpaceX fires up used Super Heavy booster ahead of 9th Starship test flight (photos, videos)
- True Anomaly to launch 1st deep-space security missions with autonomous Jackal satellites in 2026
- Doom: The Dark Ages — Release date, trailers & everything we know
- SpaceX Fram2 astronauts see their Florida launch site from space as historic pole-orbiting mission nears its end (video)
- Major storms on Jupiter can leave a fingerprint in the planet's atmosphere
- Captain Pike and his crew explore a lost Starfleet vessel in a new 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' novel coming later this month
- New 'Black Mirror' Season 7 trailer teases an epic space battle for the USS Callister (video)
- Extreme magnetic fields near our galaxy's black hole are preventing stars from being born, JWST discovers
- The utterly beautiful destruction of a planet: Space photo of the day
- Moon dust may help astronauts power sustainable lunar cities. Here's how.
- How a 'mudball' meteorite survived space to land in the jungles of Central America
- Powerful solar winds squish Jupiter's magnetic field 'like a giant squash ball'
- NASA proves its electric moon dust shield works on the lunar surface
- What's the difference between a young exoplanet and an old one?
- Secretive Russian military satellites release mystery object into orbit
- April 2
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- 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 3 teaser trailer promises more gimmicky hijinks in the final frontier (video)
- Atlas V rocket will launch Amazon's 1st big batch of Project Kuiper internet satellites on April 9
- 'Red Planet,' 'Top Gun' and 'Batman Forever' star Val Kilmer dies at 65
- 25 years on, Vin Diesel's 'Pitch Black' still outshines every other Riddick film — and we think we know why
- Remember that asteroid everyone was worried about 2 months ago? The JWST just got a clear view of it
- Europe's life-hunting ExoMars rover gets new landing platform to replace canceled Russian craft
- Familiar faces return in 'Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld', which hits Disney+ on May the 4th (video)
- SpaceX Fram2 astronauts see 'pure white' Antarctica from polar orbit: Space photo of the day
- ESA's new documentary paints worrying picture of Earth's orbital junk problem
- US Space Force picks Rocket Lab and Stoke Space to compete for national security launches
- Space miso is nuttier than Earth miso — but it's still miso
- You can still get 73% Starz for three months and watch some Marvel content following the Avengers: Doomsday cast announcement
- Incredible photo shows supermassive black hole blowing a jet of matter into interstellar space
- Drone pilot who flew over Vandenberg Space Force Base sentenced to 4 months in jail
- Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit
- Northern Lights in Mexico? Low-latitudes may be more vulnerable than expected to geomagnetic storms
- April 1
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- NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it'
- New alien abduction film 'Watch the Skies' is giving us Swedish Spielberg vibes (video)
- 'I’d get on in a heartbeat': Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)
- Rare 'double sunrise' captured in Canada by intrepid solar eclipse chasers (photos)
- Déjà vu: President Trump nominates Greg Autry again to be NASA's financial chief
- Cryptocurrency billionaire watches SpaceX rocket launch on the way to his own SpaceX rocket launch
- DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere
- Floating blue-eyed robot keeps watch on the ISS: Space photo of the day
- Million-mile-long solar whirlwind could help solve sun's greatest mysteries (video)
- Watch chilling 1st views of Earth's poles seen by SpaceX Fram2 astronauts (video)
- NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet aces key 'cruise control' test ahead of 1st flight
- Scientists used JWST instruments 'wrong' on purpose to capture direct images of exoplanets
- Sun unleashes powerful M5.6 solar flare and Earth is in the firing line — are auroras incoming?
- Changing seasons on Uranus tracked across 20 years by Hubble Space Telescope
- SpaceX launches private Fram2 astronauts on historic spaceflight over Earth's poles
