Hubble Telescope sees 'stellar volcano' erupt in amazing colors.

T he Hubble Space Telescope has captured an intricate portrait of two nearby stars that have been in close contact for centuries, revealing once again the complex yet volatile relationship of a stellar duo. The striking, hour-glass-shaped nebula seen in the new image was forg…

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James Webb telescope spots the ultimate 'super star cluster' deep in the Milky Way.

Westerlund 1 is a galactic factory of epic proportions. Visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere just below the tail of the Scorpion — and close to the core of the Milky Way — it's the largest known star cluster in our galaxy. It's the ultimate example of a "…

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SpaceX catches Starship booster in 'Mechazilla arms' in historic first.

SpaceX added another milestone to its Starship testing on Sunday, successfully catching the rocket booster using the "chopstick"-like arms of the launch tower, where the rocket had launched just five minutes prior. Starship's Super Heavy Booster is grappled at …

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Ancient ruins are under threat. Here's how archaeologists are getting help from space.

Space archaeology needs to mix new and old missions to protect ancient sites, scientists urged at a recent NASA conference. Take the example of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. The facility is best known for helping to chart unknown worlds, …

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Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida with Category 5 strength in new ISS footage.

A Category 5 hurricane bearing down on Florida starkly stands out in new space station footage. Earlier today (Wednesday, Oct. 9), the International Space Station flew over Hurricane Milton as the storm made its way toward the west coast of Florida. Milton is expected to mak…

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Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone dies.

Madonna has lost her younger brother Christopher Ciccone to cancer at the age of 63. The designer and artist worked closely through much of her career, having acted as her personal assistant and dresser, interior decorator and artistic director of her tours, but their relati…

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Nobel prize for physics goes to pair who invented key AI techniques.

The 2024 Nobel prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their work on artificial neural networks and the fundamental algorithms that let machines learn, which are key to today’s large language models like ChatGPT. The Royal Swedish Academy o…

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NASA shuts off Voyager 2 science instrument as power dwindles.

NASA engineers have turned off one of Voyager 2's science instruments due to dwindling power supplies on the spacecraft as it explores interstellar space.  Voyager 2 launched into space on Aug. 20, 1977 and left the solar system on Nov. 5, 2018. It is currently 12.8 bill…

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Top 'safety risk' for the ISS is a leak that has been ongoing for 5 years.

A long-running leak is the top "safety risk" affecting the plan to keep astronauts on board the International Space Station until 2030, a new NASA audit found. The affected area, found in the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), has been leakin…

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Biggest solar flare since 2017 erupts from sun and Earth is in the firing line

The sun has just unleashed its most powerful solar flare this cycle, a colossal X-class eruption.  The X9.05 solar flare peaked at 8:10 a.m. EDT (1210 GMT), triggering shortwave radio blackouts over Africa and Europe, the sunlit portion of Earth at the time of eruption.  The …

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Earth has caught a "second moon".

NASA scientists calculated that Earth should have captured a "second moon" on Sunday (Sept. 29). The "mini-moon" is actually the tiny asteroid 2024 PT5, which usually orbits the sun as part of a small asteroid belt that follows Earth. While Earth's pr…

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Weird striped rock 'unlike any seen on Mars' found by Perseverance rover.

A striped rock that looks out of place in its surroundings on the slopes of the inner wall of Jezero crater has scientists excited about what it may reveal about the Red Planet's history. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted the striped rock, and the rover's in…

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Japan launches spy satellite on penultimate mission of H-2A rocket.

Japan's workhorse H-2A rocket flew for the second-to-last time early Thursday morning (Sept. 26). An H-2A topped with a secret spy satellite called IGS-Radar 8 lifted off from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center on Thursday at 1:24 a.m. EDT (0524 GMT and 2:24 p.m. local…

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NASA's Europa Clipper on track for October 10.

Three weeks from now, NASA's Europa Clipper probe will lift off and embark on a long-awaited mission to study Jupiter's icy moon Europa, which scientists think is one of the most promising places to look for life beyond Earth. The launch appears to still be on track…

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SpaceX launches 5 giant BlueBird smartphone satellites for AST SpaceMobile.

AST SpaceMobile's first five commercial satellites have reached orbit. The huge spacecraft, called BlueBirds, lifted off today (Sept. 12) at 4:52 a.m. EDT (0852 GMT) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Falcon 9's first…

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China plans to build moon base at the lunar south pole by 2035

China has revealed that its moon-base plans will be rolled out in two distinct phases, eventually creating a series of nodes on the lunar surface and in orbit. The initial roadmap for the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), jointly led by China and Russia, was unvei…

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Google and Apple lose their court fights against the EU.

Google lost its last bid to overturn a European Union antitrust penalty, after the bloc's top court ruled against it Tuesday in a case that came with a whopping fine and helped jumpstart an era of intensifying scrutiny for Big Tech companies. The European Union’s top cou…

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James Earl Jones, legendary actor known for unmistakable baritone voice dies.

One of the most famous voices of all time has gone silent. James Earl Jones, whose prodigious acting talent was often overshadowed by his distinctive baritone over a seven-decade career both onstage and on the screen, died Monday, his representative said. He was 93. A contemp…

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Americans lost $5.6 billion last year in cryptocurrency fraud scams.

Americans were duped out of more than $5.6 billion last year through fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency, the FBI said in a report released Monday that shows a 45% jump in losses from 2022. The FBI received nearly 70,000 complaints in 2023 by victims of financial fraud in…

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Jamie Lee Curtis has won an Emmy for her work on “The Bear.”

Jamie Lee Curtis has won an Emmy for her work on “The Bear.” The actress who has a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe award and an Academy Award, can add the Emmy to her accolades after taking home the award Sunday for best guest actress in a comedy for her work on the hit FX show. …

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SpaceX will start launching Starships to Mars in 2026.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket will start flying Mars missions just two years from now, if all goes according to plan. "These will be uncrewed to test the reliability of landing intact on Mars. If those landings go well, then the first crewed flights to Mars will be i…

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Astronauts would have been fine on Boeing's Starliner during landing.

After more than three months in space, Starliner's 10-day Crew Flight Test (CFT) has finally concluded. The Boeing spacecraft made a successful landing over the weekend, parachuting to a soft touchdown in the dark desert night of White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, …

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Boeing Starliner capsule lands back on Earth, without astronauts.

Starliner's long space odyssey is over. The Boeing capsule, named Calypso, returned to Earth early this morning (Sept. 7), touching down in the New Mexico desert at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT; 10:01 p.m. local time on Sept. 6). The landing was long-delayed, coming more than…

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James Webb telescope catches baby stars roaring to life.

A new image of the Serpens Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows that when clouds collapse to form stars, all of those stars spin in the same direction. What it is: The Serpens Nebula Where it is: 1,300 light-years away, in the constellation Serpens When it w…

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Elon Musk has been predicting civil war in Europe for nearly a year.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has repeatedly prophesied a future civil war related to immigration. Musk has posted about the subject on his social media platform X at least eight times in the past 10 months, according to a review of his posts by NBC News. And his posts usually …

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Why is a 'once-in-a-decade' Supermoon Blue Moon happening twice in 2 years?

Just exactly when is the next Supermoon Blue Moon? As we ready ourselves for the Supermoon Blue Moon on Monday, Aug. 19 where it officially becomes 100% full at 2:26 p.m. EDT (1826 GMT). Some of you eagle-eyed readers might be asking "Wait a minute, during last year'…

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Robotic Russian Progress 89 cargo ship docks at ISS with tons of fresh supplies

An uncrewed Russian cargo ship successfully docked at the International Space Station early Saturday (Aug. 17) to deliver tons of fresh gear, food and other vital supplies.  The automated Progress 89 spacecraft linked up with the International Space Station (ISS) at 1:53 a.m…

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Pompeii archaeologists find bodies of man and woman – and their treasure.

The skeletal remains of a man and a woman have been unearthed in Pompeii, along with a cache of coins and precious jewelry, archaeologists say. The discovery is part of a dig in Region IX of the buried city that has uncovered a plethora of ancient buildings and artifacts, in…

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Microsoft's Edge desktop browser approaches 14% market share as Chrome slides.

Pretty much everyone knows that Google's Chrome is and has been the dominant desktop web browser for years. Ask about second place, however, and the number of correct answers registered is likely to dip significantly. According to the latest data from web traffic analyst…

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Simone Biles ends her 2024 Olympic Games with four Medals.

Simone Biles is leaving Paris having made herself proud — and having set a few records. The athlete, already the most decorated gymnast of all time, finished out the 2024 Paris Olympics by winning her fourth medal of the Games, a silver in the women's artistic gymnastics…

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