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Best AI games… as in games about AI, not slop made by AI

As AI invades everyday life, we’ve gone back and revisited the best video games with memorable AI characters, evil or otherwise.

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Watch the 'blood moon' total lunar eclipse live online tonight with these free livestreams

It'll be the last blood moon until New Year's Eve 2028. Coverage begins in the early hours of March 3.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 199 — The Obsolete Astronaut?

On Episode 199 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Pascal Lee, who has thoughts on how and when robots may perform better —and more safely —than humans in space.

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Is it legal to own, buy, or sell Apollo mission moon rocks and lunar samples?

NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials.

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'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' is making Trek horny again, and it's about time!

"I am programmed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring."

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See the 'impossible' as sunrise and a total lunar eclipse appear at the same time on March 3

A rare atmospheric effect called selenelion could briefly let skywatchers see the rising sun and a blood moon at the same time.

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'Pushing this competition': SpaceX's Starship might not fly on NASA's newly revamped Artemis 3 mission

NASA's Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon —and it might not involve SpaceX's Starship megarocket, either.

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February finale: SpaceX wraps up month with three Starlink launches this week

Two Falcon 9 launches from Florida and one from California deployed 83 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, wrapping up February 2026 for the SpaceX network.

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Apollo moon rocks may have finally solved an old lunar mystery

A new analysis of Apollo moon samples reveals insight into the history of the lunar magnetic field.

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Nostrovia! We finally got our 1st look at Apple TV's 'Star City,' the Soviet 'For All Mankind' spinoff

See how the space race evolved from the other side in this new sci-fi series coming in May

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The US Air Force's latest X-plane looks like a missile — that shoots other missiles

The U.S. military is developing a new experimental aircraft known as the X-68A and looks a lot like a cruise missile that is also capable of launching its own missiles.

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If Godzilla attacked, could we survive? We asked the experts

Let's say Godzilla exists and walks among us like in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Could humans actually stop him, or even survive? We spoke to the experts to find out.

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NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts won't land on the moon after all. 'This is just not the right pathway forward.'

NASA is changing its plans to return astronauts to the moon, and redrawing the architecture for how the Artemis missions will look moving forward.

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The total lunar eclipse tonight will be the last until New Year's Eve 2028

After this 'blood moon,' our natural satellite will not fully disappear into Earth's shadow again for nearly three years — until a rare trifecta of total lunar eclipses in 2028–29 ends the drought.

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Artemis 2 moon rocket rolls back to the shop | Space photo of the day Feb. 27, 2026

NASA brought its mega moon rocket back into the shop for repairs on Feb. 25, 2026, just as the sun was setting over the Florida Space Coast.

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Curiosity rover finds clues to Mars' watery past in rocky 'spiderwebs'

The web-like features are believed to be sculpted by ancient groundwater, offering new clues about the Red Planet's watery past.

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Astrophotographer captures rare 6-planet parade spanning nearly 180 degrees of sky

A U.K. astrophotographer had to put together some clever equipment tricks to show six of the seven planets in a rare 'parade' over the south of England.

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Artemis 2 moon mission shouldn't launch until late 2026, new analysis of solar superflares suggests

A new method of predicting when a superflare will erupt from the sun suggests that we are in the middle of such a period now — and that could be bad news for the Artemis 2 astronauts.

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Astronomers just watched a star 1,540 times the size of our sun transform into a hypergiant. Will it go supernova?

One of our universe's biggest stars has dramatically turned into a rare, yellow 'hypergiant' star, and astronomers aren't sure when it will go supernova.

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US Space Force pauses national security launches on ULA Vulcan rocket due to booster glitch

The U.S. Space Force is putting an indefinite halt on all national security missions aboard United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, following a repeat anomaly with the rocket's side boosters.

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NASA shakes up leadership of human spaceflight program in wake of critical Starliner report

NASA has replaced two bigwigs in its human spaceflight program, just a week after releasing a report criticizing how the agency handled the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi.

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Mars and Earth look set for war in the 1st full 'For All Mankind' season 5 trailer (video)

'Change happens when a few determined individuals make it happen'

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February's 'rare planetary alignment' peaks tonight — here's what to look for in the planet parade

We truly hope it doesn't rain on your parade.

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Rare 'ring of fire' eclipse seen by few | Space photo of the day for Feb. 26, 2026

A 'ring of fire' solar eclipse glowed over Antarctica, witnessed by only a handful of researchers at Concordia Research Station.

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'Starfleet Academy''s latest episode reminds us why the Doctor is one of 'Star Trek's greatest ever characters

Few sci-fi characters have exceeded their original programming quite like Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram.

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