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Spot Uranus shining at its brightest this year — here's what to expect on Nov. 21

Uranus will appear opposite the sun in Earth's sky on Nov. 21.

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SpaceX rocket launches 140 satellites into orbit on Transporter-15, aces landing at sea (video)

SpaceX will launch more than 100 different payloads today (Nov. 20) on the Transporter 15 rideshare mission.

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Rubin Observatory peers into the 'hidden universe' and discovers stream of stars longer than our entire Milky Way

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden universe shapes the realms that we can see."

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ISS astronauts see comet Lemmon 'absorbed' by aurora | Space photo of the day for Nov. 20, 2025

It's not every day you see both a comet and an aurora from low Earth orbit.

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Amazon says 'indeed' to a new 'Stargate' show for Prime Video

Chevron 7 is locked, as Amazon greenlights a new 'Stargate' show for Prime Video led by longtime franchise figure Martin Gero.

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James Webb Space Telescope captures 'one-of-a-kind' triple star system that looks like a cosmic embryo (image)

The unique system features two rare Wolf-Rayet stars, and a supergiant companion that is interrupting the flow of the dust shells that the two Wolf-Rayet stars cast off.

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NASA reveals new images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from across the solar system: 'It looks and behaves like a comet'

NASA has pointed its fleet of spacecraft at comet 3I/ATLAS to collect new footage of the interstellar invader. The agency has also said "all evidence points to it being a comet."

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Senate to hold hearing for billionaire Jared Isaacman's re-nomination as NASA chief on Dec. 3

The U.S. Senate will hold a hearing on Dec. 3 to consider the re-nomination of billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman as NASA chief.

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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in new image captured after close pass by the sun (photo)

"For me, it is particularly interesting to see how such an interstellar object evolves."

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6 things you might have missed in the new 'Fallout' Season 2 trailer (video)

All roads lead to New Vegas as Prime Video's sci-fi series returns Dec. 17.

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The moon is farther from Earth tonight than it will be until 2043

The most distant moon since March 2020 takes to the sky today, but you won't be able to see it.

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Rocket Lab launches hypersonic test flight for US military (photo)

Rocket Lab launched its HASTE suborbital vehicle for the sixth time ever on Tuesday (Nov. 18), sending several test payloads up for the U.S. military.

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'Predator: Badlands' remembers that action movies should be fun

The latest 'Predator' is a fun throwback to the '80s and '90s, when silliness and comedy were a key part of the action formula

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Pilot captures jaw-dropping northern lights show from 36,000 feet (photos)

When a severe G4 geomagnetic storm hit, this Dreamliner pilot had the perfect front-row seat.

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Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaks apart in incredible telescope photos

Astronomer Gianluca Masi captured breathtaking imagery of solar system comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaking into multiple pieces after being warmed by the sun.

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Private mission to save NASA space telescope will launch in 2026 on a rocket dropped from a plane

Katalyst Space Technologies will use Northrop Grumman's air-launched Pegasus rocket for its upcoming mission, which will send a spacecraft to boost the orbit of NASA's Swift space telescope.

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Lasers target the Tarantula Nebula with 'artificial stars' | Space photo of the day for Nov. 19, 2025

The Very Large Telescope's interferometer targeted four lasers toward the Tarantula Nebula to create an artificial star.

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Scientists just discovered a new crater on the moon — they call it a 'freckle'

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has identified a never-before-seen crater on the moon's surface.

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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks into Florida's night sky carrying Starlink satellites to orbit (video)

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites in a nighttime liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday (Nov. 18).

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The Euclid space telescope observed 1.2 million galaxies in just 1 year. Here's what we've learned

The data is starting to reveal how galaxies and their black holes evolve.

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Walk through the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs with American Museum of Natural History's new 'Impact' exhibit

"It sounds like science fiction or the stuff of Hollywood movies."

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Ryan Gosling and 'Rocky' team up to save the galaxy in new 'Project Hail Mary' trailer (video)

"His planet's dying, too. We're here for the same reason."

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The James Webb Space Telescope may have finally found the 1st stars in the universe

"We really needed the sensitivity of JWST. We also needed the 100 times magnification from gravitational lensing from a galaxy cluster between us and LAP1-B."

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Do the cores of dead stars exist forever?

Regular stars collapse and die once they run out of fuel for their nuclear reactions, but the white dwarfs just sit there, hanging out, for eternity.

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Huge red giant star has newfound companion — and it may be a bad neighbor

"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding these stars."

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