NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape.

Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer called "Pleiades," scientists have discovered yet another spiral structur…

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SpaceX rolls huge Super Heavy booster to pad ahead of Starship Flight 8 launch.

Starship hardware has made it to the pad ahead of a planned liftoff this week. SpaceX posted photos on X today (Feb. 25) showing Super Heavy, the giant first stage of its Starship megarocket, being lifted onto the orbital launch mount at its Starbase site in South Texas. The …

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See Mercury at its best in the night sky over the next 2 weeks.

We now have a fine opportunity to view the planet that many astronomy guide books refer to as the most difficult of the naked-eye planets to see. The planet in question is Mercury. Beginning now and running through the end of the second week of March, this somewhat overgrown…

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Private Blue Ghost moon lander captures amazing footage of Earth behind and lunar surface below.

Firefly Aerospace is primed for a lunar landing attempt on Sunday (March 2) following a series of successful maneuvers in lunar orbit. The company's Blue Ghost lander entered lunar orbit on Feb. 13, after launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 15. It has since b…

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Blue Origin launches 'Perfect 10' space tourists on New Shepard rocket.

Blue Origin launched its 10th space tourism mission this morning (Feb. 25), sending six paying passengers to suborbital space. After a slight delay due to a hold, Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard vehicle lifted off from the company's West Texas site today at 10:5…

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Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare, triggers radio blackouts across Pacific Ocean

Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare, triggers radio blackouts across Pacific Ocean. The sun ended the weekend with a bang as a sunspot rotating out of our view erupted with a powerful solar flare on Sunday afternoon. At 2:27 p.m. EST (1927 GMT) on Sunday, (Feb. 24), a …

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SpaceX targeting Feb. 28 for next launch of Starship megarocket.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket will fly again this week, if all goes according to plan. The company is planning to launch Starship, the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built, for the eighth time on Friday (Feb. 28), Elon Musk said via X yesterday (Feb. 23). The 403.5-…

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What makes Mars the 'Red' Planet ?

Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as just the "Red Planet" — but new research suggests the Martian shade isn't just lovely to look at. The chemistry behind Mars' rosy hue may actually hold important informat…

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SpaceX launches 22 Starlink internet satellites from California.

SpaceX launched another set of its Starlink internet satellites from southern California on Saturday evening (Feb 22). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station at 8:38 p.m. EST (5:38 p.m. local time or 0138 GMT Feb. 23)…

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More than 200,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship.

More than 200,000 people from Canada have signed a parliamentary petition calling for their country to strip Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship because of the tech billionaire’s alliance with Donald Trump, who has spent his second US presidency repeatedly threatening to conqu…

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Roberta Flack, Grammy Award-winning singer dies.

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning soul singer best known for her celebrated interpretations of romantic ballads like “Killing Me Softly With His Song,” as well as her professional collaborations and social activism, has died, according to a statement from her publicist. She…

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What the asteroid with a 1-in-48 chance of hitting Earth in 2032 looks like.

It might not look like much in this image, but this is the asteroid that has made a major news impact in 2025. That's because this space rock, designated asteroid 2024 YR4, has a 1-in-48 chance of impacting Earth in 2032. For obvious reasons, astronomers are desperate to…

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20 years of satellite data reveal 'staggering' levels of glaciers melting, sea levels rising.

Over the past 20 years, glaciers worldwide have lost 273 billion tonnes of ice to a warming world, and this ice loss has driven sea levels to rise at an accelerated pace, according to a decades-long comprehensive analysis based on satellite data. A time series of yearly ice …

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Pope Francis has peaceful night but remains in critical condition.

Pope Francis had a peaceful night in the hospital as he was being treated with oxygen, the Vatican said Sunday, following a respiratory scare a day earlier that prompted Catholics worldwide to pray for the pontiff.  Francis remained in critical condition and was receiving hi…

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Chinese team finds new bat coronavirus that could infect humans via same route as Covid-19.

A Chinese team has found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19. The study was led by Shi Zhengli – a leading virologist known as the “batwoman” due to her extensiv…

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Elon Musk recommends that the International Space Station be deorbited ASAP.

In a remarkable statement Thursday, SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the International Space Station should be deorbited "as soon as possible." This comment from Musk will surely set off a landmine in the global space community, with broad implications. And it appears…

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Astrophotographer captures 'rare' planetary parade as 7 planets align in the night sky.

Astrophotographer Josh Dury captured this stunning photograph of the seven-planet alignment on Feb. 22 from the Mendip Hills, Somerset, U.K. Currently, skywatchers have a rare opportunity to witness this planetary parade in the evening sky, with seven planets aligned. For mo…

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Rare Purple Dinosaur Track discovered by Fossil Tour Guide in UK.

A UK-based fossil tour guide used to pointing out fossils to tourists was given quite a treat recently when he discovered a rare purple dinosaur track on the Isle of Wight. On February 12, Joe, from South Coast Fossil, was exploring the coastline of the Isle of Wight when he…

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Researchers found the world’s oldest pyramid hidden in Indonesia.

Beneath the rolling hills of West Java, Indonesia, lies a site that could challenge the very timeline of human civilization. Known as Gunung Padang, or the "mountain of enlightenment" by the local Sundanese people, this enigmatic structure may be the oldest pyrami…

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30 million-year-old skull reveals previously unknown species of apex carnivore.

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, but the entire lineage was wiped out about 25 million years ago, leaving prehistorians to grapple with what caused the apex predator to go extinct. Now,…

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Gaza’s Health Ministry warns of severe oxygen shortage in hospitals after Israeli war.

Gaza’s Health Ministry warned Sunday of a severe oxygen shortage in hospitals across the enclave after the destruction of 10 power plants by Israel’s genocidal war. “Many hospitals are unable to meet their oxygen needs,” the ministry said in a statement. The ministry warned t…

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Japan's Resilience lunar lander prepares for 1st swing around the moon.

The second lunar lander from Japanese space exploration company ispace is ready for a flyby of the moon as part of its elongated moon landing journey. ispace's Resilience lander launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with Firefly Aerospace's Blue Gh…

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State Department halts plan to buy $400M worth of armored vehicles from Musk’s Tesla.

The State Department had been in talks with Elon Musk’s Tesla company to buy armored electric vehicles, but the plans have been put on hold by the Trump administration after reports emerged about a potential $400 million purchase. A State Department spokesperson said the ele…

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TikTok Returns to Apple's App Store.

TikTok is once again available for download from the App Store, which means it can be installed on iPhones and will be able to receive updates. Apple's decision to start distributing TikTok again comes after a letter sent from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, according …

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Tiny plasma jets on the sun drive the elusive solar wind, Europe's Solar Orbiter reveals.

The "solar wind" refers to pockets of energetic particles blasted out from the sun. These particles are occasionally directed toward Earth, like last summer when a rare cluster of such storms rained on our planet and sparked breathtaking auroras across the globe —…

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NASA denies setting 'new bans' for employees amid reports of removing LGBTQI+ symbols from offices.

NASA has come under scrutiny over the last few weeks due to its compliance with executive orders penned by U.S. President Donald Trump. These are orders that directly impact all federal organizations and have, for instance, compelled the space agency to end initiatives focu…

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SpaceX rocket launches 21 Starlink satellites into orbit, then lands at sea.

A SpaceX rocket launched a new batch of Starlink satellites into orbit on Tuesday (Feb. 11) as the spaceflight company's space-based internet service begins direct-to-cell service with T-Mobile. The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried 21 Starlink satellites into space from Sp…

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NASA picks SpaceX to launch Pandora exoplanet mission.

A small NASA exoplanet probe now has a ride to Earth orbit. The agency announced on Monday afternoon (Feb. 10) that it has picked SpaceX to launch Pandora, a 716-pound (325-kilogram) satellite designed to help scientists better understand how our understanding of exoplanets&…

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NASA moves up return date for Boeing Starliner astronauts after swapping SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.

NASA has decided to shuffle around some SpaceX Dragon capsules in order to launch its Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station as soon as possible. The agency is now targeting March 12 for the launch of Crew-10, which will carry three astronauts and a cosmonaut to …

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Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander leaves Earth orbit to head for the moon.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit. "Blue Ghost successfully performed a Trans Lunar Injection burn to escape Earth's gravitational pull and begin a 4-day transit to the m…

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How to watch NASA's 1st Twitch stream from the ISS this week.

The ISS is coming to Twitch. On Wednesday (Feb. 12), NASA will host its first Twitch stream from the International Space Station (ISS), giving viewers the chance to ask NASA astronauts questions in real time, while they orbit Earth some 250 miles (402 km) from our planet'…

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