If we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.

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21.02.2025

Musk and Trump repeat false 'stranded' Starliner astronauts narrative, but they are not stranded | Space

Elon Musk and President Trump continue to advance the narrative that NASA astronauts from Boeing's Starliner mission were "abandoned" in space.

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21.02.2025

'Jupiter Ascending' came out 10 years ago, and we're still not sure how the Matrix creator's space opera went so wrong | Space

The Wachowskis' attempt at reenergizing the space opera genre is widely considered to be a low point in their career, but maybe we were too harsh?

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21.02.2025

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket debris creates dramatic fireball over Europe, crashes in Poland | Space

A SpaceX rocket stage fell to Earth early Wednesday morning (Feb. 19), blazing a trail of fire through European skies.

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21.02.2025

Some baby stars in ancient stellar nurseries were born in 'fluffy' cosmic blankets | Space

Astronomers have discovered that many infant stars born in stellar nurseries of the early universe may have preferred "fluffy" stellar blankets.

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21.02.2025

Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo) | Space

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard.

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21.02.2025

NASA massively lowers impact risk of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 to 1 in 360 | Space

Breathe a sigh of relief! NASA has dropped the risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 impacting Earth in 2032 to 1 in 360, just days after it became the highest-risk asteroid since records began.

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21.02.2025

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from an ancient Red Planet lake (images) | Space

NASA's Curiosity rover photographed two sets of wave ripples in Martian rock, indicating the existence of an ice-free, shallow lake on Mars. Here's why that matters.

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21.02.2025

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announces crew for 10th space tourism launch | Space

Blue Origin just revealed the identities of five of the six crewmembers for NS-30, its next suborbital space tourism mission. The company has not yet announced a launch date.

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21.02.2025

'Impossible' pair of vampire stars discovered by Einstein Probe's X-ray vision | Space

A flash of X-ray light has revealed the existence of an odd couple of stars, a massive star and a white dwarf, that shouldn't really exist together.

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21.02.2025

Save 20% on our favorite novelty Astronaut-shaped star projector | Space

This Astronaut star projector is currently just 20% off, offering gorgeous indoor nebulas in a fun, novelty model at a sizable discount.

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21.02.2025

The ISS should be deorbited 'as soon as possible,' Elon Musk says: 'Let's go to Mars' | Space

The International Space Station "has served its purpose" and should be deorbited "as soon as possible," SpaceX chief and close Trump adviser Elon Musk said today (Feb. 20).

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21.02.2025

What is dark energy? Exploding white dwarf stars may help us crack the case | Space

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the investigation of dark energy.

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20.02.2025

Largest-ever discovery of 'missing link' black holes revealed by dark energy camera (video) | Space

Using a revolutionary dark energy camera, astronomers have discovered the largest haul of "missing link" intermediate-mass black holes ever seen, but there should have been more.

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20.02.2025

The next giant leap? How jumping could help astronauts train for trips to the moon and Mars | Space

Scientists suggest adding jumping exercises to astronauts' training regimens, to minimize the health effects of long space missions, such as moon and Mars trips.

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20.02.2025

Over 1,000 NASA employees saved from dismissal as Trump downsizes federal workforce | Space

After the space community braced for a brutal shake-up at NASA this week, a last-minute decision on Tuesday (Feb. 18) spared over 1,000 agency employees on probationary status from being dismissed.

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20.02.2025

Want a workout? Try walking to the top of the world's largest telescope (photo) | Space

The world's largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile's Atacama Desert.

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20.02.2025

I want to believe — but yet another massive search for alien technosignatures just turned up nothing | Space

Hunting for alien civilizations isn't a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it's the business of combing through enormous volumes of data to look for peculiar signals.

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20.02.2025

Leaving Pluto in the dust: New Horizons probe gearing up for epic crossing of 'termination shock' | Space

NASA's New Horizons Pluto probe is gearing up to cross the "termination shock," an exotic boundary in the outer solar system, as early as 2027.

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20.02.2025

Lego Marvel Logo & Minifigures set review | Space

It's not the most exciting set, but Lego Marvel Logo & Minifigures expertly achieves what it sets out to do.

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20.02.2025

Black holes snacking on small stars create particle accelerators that bombard Earth with cosmic rays | Space

Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring stars. They pack quite a punch, bombarding Earth with cosmic rays.

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20.02.2025

7 planets are aligned in the night sky right now. But what's that mean for science? | Space

In February 2025, all seven of our planetary neighbors will be visible from Earth. So what does such a planetary alignment mean for science? Well, not much — unless you're an interplanetary spacecraft.

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20.02.2025

Blue Ghost moon lander lowers its orbit to fly closer to the lunar surface (video) | Space

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander lowered its orbit around the moon Tuesday (Feb. 18), sending back gorgeous footage from just over the lunar surface.

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19.02.2025

Rocket Lab launches sharp-eyed Earth-observation satellite toward orbit | Space

Rocket Lab launched a high-resolution imaging satellite for the company Blacksky toward low Earth orbit this evening (Feb. 18).

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19.02.2025

'Captain America: Brave New World' introduces adamantium into the MCU, but did it come from space in the comics? | Space

No Weapon X yet, but Captain America: Brave New World marks the arrival of adamantium to Earth-616 in a departure from its comic book origins.

Space.com

19.02.2025

3D-printed 'hydrogels' could be future space radiation shields for astronaut trips to Mars | Space

Those tiny colorful dinosaur toys that grow bigger underwater might hold the key to protecting astronauts as they journey through space.

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19.02.2025

Japan's Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of historic touchdown try (photo) | Space

Resilience, a lunar lander built by Japanese company ispace, zoomed within a mere 5,220 miles (8,400 kilometers) of the moon on Feb. 14.

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19.02.2025

Imagine Dragons 'Starfield' video game anthem will beam to Earth from the moon | Space

Imagine Dragons' song 'Children of the Sky' will be beamed to Earth from a lunar data center as part of the private IM-2 moon mission launching as early as Feb. 26.

Space.com

19.02.2025

Exoplanet with iron rain has violent winds 'like something out of science fiction' | Space

Astronomers have discovered a powerful jet stream raging through the atmosphere of an ultra-hot Jupiter exoplanet ravaged by liquid iron rains.

Space.com

19.02.2025

James Webb Space Telescope finds our Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole blowing bubbles (image, video) | Space

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, Sgr A*, finding it endlessly blowing bubbles.

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19.02.2025

Cosmic voids may explain the universe's acceleration without dark energy | Space

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion.

Space.com

19.02.2025

Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later | Space

The astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Arizona are showing Pluto some love on the 95th anniversary of its discovery, regardless of whether we call it a planet or not.

Space.com

19.02.2025

At $800 off, this powerful Nikon Z8 mirrorless camera has never been cheaper: Save big before March's lunar eclipse | Space

Looking for to take your astrophotography to the next level? Save up to $800 on the Nikon Z8, a powerhouse of a mirrorless camera just in time to capture March's lunar eclipse.

Space.com

19.02.2025

Save 36% on the Star Wars Black Series Force FX Elite Lightsaber | Space

With a huge 36% off, you can grab an unbeatable Star Wars deal on this feature-packed lightsaber, now it's lowest price in months.

Space.com

19.02.2025

James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a cosmic 'Phoenix' cools off to birth stars | Space

Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James Webb Space Telescope has now learned how this galaxy cluster does it.

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19.02.2025

Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA's SLS moon rocket: reports | Space

Boeing is preparing to lay off roughly 200 employees working on the Space Launch System rocket as it braces for the possibility that its contracts with NASA may not be renewed after they end in March.

Space.com

19.02.2025

SpaceX Starlink mission lands rocket off coast of The Bahamas for 1st time | Space

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 23 Starlink satellites today (Feb. 18) and then landed the Atlantic Ocean near The Bahamas — a first for the company.

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18.02.2025

Scientists accidentally discover Earth's inner core is less solid than expected | Space

The new research could help us better understand our planet's thermal and magnetic fields.

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18.02.2025

The Winter Triangle meets the 'Mars Triangle' in the night sky this month | Space

For the next few weeks, the planet Mars will form an almost perfect isosceles triangle with the two bright stars marking the heads of the Gemini Twins, Pollux and Castor.

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18.02.2025

'Star Trek: Section 31' got us thinking... Should you have to do your homework before you watch a movie? | Space

The latest 'Star Trek' movie assumes plenty of prior knowledge of a vast franchise — and it's not alone.

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Life as we don't know it: Some aliens may need sulfuric acid like we need water | Space

Musk and Trump repeat false 'stranded' Starliner astronauts narrative, but they are not stranded | Space

'Jupiter Ascending' came out 10 years ago, and we're still not sure how the Matrix creator's space opera went so wrong | Space

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket debris creates dramatic fireball over Europe, crashes in Poland | Space

Some baby stars in ancient stellar nurseries were born in 'fluffy' cosmic blankets | Space

Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo) | Space

NASA massively lowers impact risk of 'city-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 to 1 in 360 | Space

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovers evidence of ripples from an ancient Red Planet lake (images) | Space

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin announces crew for 10th space tourism launch | Space

'Impossible' pair of vampire stars discovered by Einstein Probe's X-ray vision | Space

Save 20% on our favorite novelty Astronaut-shaped star projector | Space

The ISS should be deorbited 'as soon as possible,' Elon Musk says: 'Let's go to Mars' | Space

What is dark energy? Exploding white dwarf stars may help us crack the case | Space

Largest-ever discovery of 'missing link' black holes revealed by dark energy camera (video) | Space

The next giant leap? How jumping could help astronauts train for trips to the moon and Mars | Space

Over 1,000 NASA employees saved from dismissal as Trump downsizes federal workforce | Space

Want a workout? Try walking to the top of the world's largest telescope (photo) | Space

I want to believe — but yet another massive search for alien technosignatures just turned up nothing | Space

Leaving Pluto in the dust: New Horizons probe gearing up for epic crossing of 'termination shock' | Space

Lego Marvel Logo & Minifigures set review | Space

Black holes snacking on small stars create particle accelerators that bombard Earth with cosmic rays | Space

7 planets are aligned in the night sky right now. But what's that mean for science? | Space

Blue Ghost moon lander lowers its orbit to fly closer to the lunar surface (video) | Space

Rocket Lab launches sharp-eyed Earth-observation satellite toward orbit | Space

'Captain America: Brave New World' introduces adamantium into the MCU, but did it come from space in the comics? | Space

3D-printed 'hydrogels' could be future space radiation shields for astronaut trips to Mars | Space

Japan's Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of historic touchdown try (photo) | Space

Imagine Dragons 'Starfield' video game anthem will beam to Earth from the moon | Space

Exoplanet with iron rain has violent winds 'like something out of science fiction' | Space

James Webb Space Telescope finds our Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole blowing bubbles (image, video) | Space

Cosmic voids may explain the universe's acceleration without dark energy | Space

Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later | Space

At $800 off, this powerful Nikon Z8 mirrorless camera has never been cheaper: Save big before March's lunar eclipse | Space

Save 36% on the Star Wars Black Series Force FX Elite Lightsaber | Space

James Webb Space Telescope reveals how a cosmic 'Phoenix' cools off to birth stars | Space

Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA's SLS moon rocket: reports | Space

SpaceX Starlink mission lands rocket off coast of The Bahamas for 1st time | Space

Scientists accidentally discover Earth's inner core is less solid than expected | Space

The Winter Triangle meets the 'Mars Triangle' in the night sky this month | Space

'Star Trek: Section 31' got us thinking... Should you have to do your homework before you watch a movie? | Space

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