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'That's going to come back and bite us': Former NASA chief questions Artemis moon lander plans

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA's commercial moon landers for its Artemis program.

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Astronaut flexes his muscles mid-spacewalk | Space photo of the day for July 7, 2026

NASA astronaut Chris Williams recently flexed his muscles for a photo while on a spacewalk with fellow astronaut Jessica Meir.

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Chinese scientists find the best way to nuke an asteroid on its way to impact Earth

While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways to deflect a space rock in case of trouble.

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SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite

A satellite aboard SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and operated spacecraft to harness nuclear energy in orbit.

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The sun's atmosphere is way hotter than its surface. Scientists may finally know why

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in the Sun's outer atmosphere, providing a new clue to the mystery of the Sun's corona is so hot.

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Even astronauts in space saw America 250 fireworks on the Fourth of July. See their ISS view of Los Angeles (video)

The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great view of some of the parties down below.

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SpaceX launches 81 satellites to orbit from California, lands rocket on ship at sea

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 81 payloads to orbit from California early Tuesday morning (July 7), then landed on a ship at sea.

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More clues surface about the origins of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Observations of the fast-moving interstellar comet with the Very Large Telescope in Chile support similar observations made by the JWST.

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NASA just found a planet 'hiding' in TESS spacecraft data, all thanks to Einstein

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system, and it is thanks to Einstein.

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Black holes buried in mysterious 'little red dot' galaxies could blast cosmic ghosts at Earth

Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy neutrinos through the cosmos.

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Unidentified metal spheres found on Australian beach are 'debris from a foreign rocket body', space agency says

The Australian Space Agency is warning residents of Queensland to be on the lookout after metallic-looking spheres, possibly space debris, appeared on a beach.

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'Acceleration without fuel:' Revolutionary superconducting thruster harnesses Earth's magnetic field in 1st orbital test

A novel space thruster using superconducting magnets completed its first orbital tests. The technology could in the future propel spacecraft using just the power of the sun.

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Japan's Hayabusa2 probe captures remarkable photo of a two-headed asteroid 62 million miles away

Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid probe got up close to asteroid Torifune on July 5 and captured stunning new images of the double-lobed space rock.

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Artemis moon astronauts visit Capitol Hill | Space photo of the day for July 6, 2026

Following their return to Earth from a 10-day journey around the moon and back in April, NASA's Artemis II astronauts headed to Capitol Hill.

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NASA will have to find a way to service its new alien-hunting space telescope

We could see robots working on NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory out in space.

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Astronomers discover radio signals coming from rare 'Blue Eye Pulsar' after decades of silence

Astronomers have detected radio signals coming from a long-dead neutron star known as the 'Blue Eye Pulsar' after searching for decades.

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'Once-in-a-millennium' asteroid flyby will be visible to much of the world in 2029

Ninety percent of the world's population could glimpse asteroid Apophis during its once-in-a-millennium close approach to Earth in 2029.

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NASA tests advanced new Mars rover prototype in the California desert (video)

A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves and navigate terrain that would leave old rovers stuck in the lunar or Martian dust.

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He-Man and beyond: 20 sci-fi cartoons (some iconic, some weird) that transported '80s and '90s kids to strange new worlds

They had the power! Saturday morning cartoons introduced many kids to science fiction... and toys, lots and lots of toys

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10 best Spanish cities to see the total solar eclipse 2026

From A Coruña and Bilbao to Madrid and Zaragoza, here's where to see the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026, in some of Spain's biggest cities.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 217 — America in Space

On Episode 217 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the progression of American space efforts.

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Human flight was still 7 years away in 1776. Now, we're headed back to the moon

Humanity made some halting steps toward flight over the centuries, but our species was still firmly rooted on the ground when the United States of America was born on July 4, 1776.

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What did the night sky look like on the 1st Independence Day 250 years ago?

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, here's what Benjamin Franklin and other colonists would have seen when they looked up on July 4, 1776.

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30 years on, "Independence Day" still proves the versatility of the original "The War of the Worlds"

"Independence Day" isn't technically "The War of the Worlds" but it's still one of the most successful adaptations of HG Wells' genre-defining novel.

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How to find Uranus this week, the hardest planet I've ever tried to see

Get your eyes on the seventh planet, and you can graduate as a skywatcher — and there's a perfect way to cheat this week as Mars glides by Uranus.

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