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SpaceX launches powerful satellite to orbit for Indonesian telecom company (video)

SpaceX launched a mission for an Indonesian telecom company tonight (Sept. 11), sending the Nusantara Lima satellite to orbit from Florida's Space Coast.

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Astronomers finally find elusive, dust-shrouded supermassive black holes at ‘Cosmic Dawn’

Using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Subaru Telescope in powerful tandem, scientists have discovered the first shrouded supermassive black holes at Cosmic Dawn.

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108 million degrees! Solar flares are far hotter than thought, study suggests

New research shows that solar flares are six times hotter than thought and calls for updated sun models that could improve space weather forecasting.

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ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 winners unveiled — and the photos are truly exquisite

These breathtaking photographs are the winning entries of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards.

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James Webb Space Telescope studies a 'failed star' named 'The Accident' to solve an old mystery of Jupiter and Saturn

A study of the "failed star" brown dwarf known as "The Accident," conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope, may reveal a solution to an old mystery of Jupiter and Saturn.

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Sun dogs, rainbows and glories are celestial wonders – and they may appear in alien skies too

These celestial wonders can tell us a lot about the state of the atmosphere at home on Earth as well as on other planets.

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'I have you now!': Darth Vader's lightsaber from 'Star Wars' sells for $3.6 million at auction

The winning bid for this screen-used prop made 'Star Wars' history last week... let's just hope the seller doesn't alter the deal.

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Russian Soyuz rocket launches robotic Progress cargo ship with 2.8 tons of supplies toward the ISS

Russian Progress 93 freighter launched toward the International Space Station on the MS-32 mission today (Sept. 11), loaded with 2.8 tons of cargo for the station's astronaut crew.

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Infrared instruments could spot exotic ice on other worlds

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new laboratory experiments.

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James Webb Space Telescope images enormous star shooting out twin jets 8 light-years long

The James Webb Space Telescope caught the birth of an enormous star with particle beams cutting across a stretch of interstellar space.

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SpaceX Starlink satellite photobombs orbital view of secret Chinese air base (photo)

One of SpaceX's broadband-beaming Starlink satellites has been captured overflying a top-secret airbase in China that was photographed by a private American Earth-observation satellite.

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Watch the winners of the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award 2025 announced live online today (video)

The ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award 2025 will be streamed live online on Sept. 11.

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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' season 3 finale blurs the line between sci-fi and fantasy... and that's OK

Telepathy, good vs evil, heroes fulfilling their destiny… If the "Strange New Worlds" finale 'New Life and New Civilizations' isn't fantasy, it isn't far off.

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Hubble telescope spies glowing galaxy in a cosmic 'Crane' | Space photo of the day for Sept. 11, 2025

Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a bustling system with star-forming regions and an active core.

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Did NASA's Perseverance rover actually find evidence of life on Mars? We need to haul its samples home to find out, scientists say

We'll likely need to get Perseverance's samples to Earth to determine if they do indeed harbor evidence of Mars life —but the prospects of such a mission are cloudy at best.

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'Destiny 2' meets 'Star Wars' in ‘Renegades’ expansion, adding blasters, lightsabers, and a wretched hive of scum and villainy (video)

Destiny 2’s next chapter is bringing in themes and elements from a galaxy far, far away without breaking the canon.

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SpaceX buys $17 billion worth of satellite spectrum to beef up Starlink broadband service

SpaceX just bought $17 billion worth of satellite spectrum from debt-ridden operator EchoStar to enhance Starlink direct-to-cell phone connectivity.

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Sci-fi is the genre of ideas — it shouldn't just be about big budgets and spectacular visuals

In an era when TV shows look like movies, have we lost sight of what should make sci-fi great?

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Watch voice cast of Disney's 'Elio' learn about Voyager probe's Golden Record in charming new bonus clip (video)

Disney/Pixar's interstellar odyssey landed on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD for all Earthlings!

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Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid. 'It was a genuine surprise!'

Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than previously thought, changing our perception of the early solar system.

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Can we safely deflect a killer asteroid without making it worse? Only if we avoid the gravitational 'keyhole,' scientists say

If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a "gravitational keyhole" that brings it to Earth.

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Gravitational wave detector confirms theories of Einstein and Hawking: 'This is the clearest view yet of the nature of black holes'

Celebrating 10 years since the first detection of gravitational waves coming from colliding black holes, LIGO has confirmed the predictions of the greatest minds in physics.

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Did NASA's Perseverance rover find evidence of ancient life on Mars? The plot thickens

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has found yet more chemical signatures that could be associated with ancient Red Planet life — but we need to examine them here on Earth to fully understand them.

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SpaceX launches 1st 21 satellites for advanced new US military constellation

SpaceX launched 21 satellites to orbit from California today (Sept. 10), beginning the buildout of an advanced new constellation for the U.S. military.

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Total lunar eclipse March 2026: A complete guide to the next 'blood moon'

A total lunar eclipse on March 3-4, 2026, will be visible in North America and will be the last total lunar eclipse anywhere on Earth until New Year's Eve 2028-2029.

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