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Supermassive black hole spews energy 300,000 light years into deep space

That's three times longer than the Milky Way galaxy.

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NASA's canceled lunar space station tech will help build the Artemis moon base

Northrop Grumman plans to take technology built into the HALO module for NASA's canceled lunar space station and repurpose it to help develop the Artemis moon base.

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'The X-Files' creator Chris Carter says new director's cut of 'I Want to Believe' is 'the horror movie that we really wanted to make' (interview)

Chris Carter, creator of "The X-Files", is revisiting the 2008 film "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" in an new R-rated director's cut coming to Hulu on Aug. 14.

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Virgin Galactic delays next commercial spaceflight to 2027

Virgin Galactic has pushed the resumption of its commercial flights back by a few months, to February 2027. The company hasn't been to space since June 2024.

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The Perseid meteor shower peak was spectacular: Here are our favorite photos

The Perseid meteor shower never disappoints, and we've got some great photos this year to prove it.

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Total solar eclipse stuns skywatchers | Space photo of the day for Aug. 13, 2026

This photo, snapped just as the Aug. 12 solar eclipse was about to enter its totality phase, really captures the drama of the moment.

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'Strange New Worlds' latest lookalike episode is part of a long line of 'Star Trek' doppelganger stories

Haven't we seen your face before? On the final frontier, your identical face twin is never far away…

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New private 'Perceptor' probes will keep an eye on satellites high above Earth

Astranis' newly announced Perceptor spacecraft will monitor satellite activity in geostationary orbit, a distant and increasingly contested domain.

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This year's 'Masters of the Universe' movie wasn't Hollywood's first attempt at capturing the power of He-Man; they tried back in 1987, and failed then too

How bad timing, a studio in financial turmoil, and a movie that looked nothing like the cartoon conspired to defeat the most powerful man in the universe.

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Total solar eclipse 2026 thrills millions with a stunning cosmic spectacle (photos, video)

A total solar eclipse wowed skywatchers on Aug. 12, 2026 as it arced across Greenland, Iceland and Spain. Here are our favorite photos and videos from the event.

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Total solar eclipse 2026 has begun. Here are the first views of totality

The first breathtaking photos of totality for the total solar eclipse 2026 are pouring in, revealing incredible views of the sun's atmosphere radiating out from behind the moon's colossal silhouette.

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Radiation-shielding vest aced Artemis I lunar test, could protect astronauts on moon and Mars missions

A radiation-shielding vest aced its Artemis I lunar test in 2022, suggesting that it could protect astronauts on long-duration missions to the moon or Mars.

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Farthest 'black hole star' ever found could help solve the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dot mystery

A distant black hole star is providing strong evidence that these objects lie at the hearts of the mysterious little red dots found shortly after the Big Bang by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Green comet caught soaring over Namibia | Space photo of the day for Aug. 12, 2026

A shot so spectacular it will leave other astrophotographers green with envy.

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Perseid meteor shower peaks under perfect skies tonight — here's what to expect

Don't miss the peak of the Perseid meteor shower tonight. Here's when, where and how to see it.

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SpaceX wraps Starlink double header day with the launch of 24 Starlink satellites from California

SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink global internet satellite constellation to orbit from California on Aug. 11, wrapping the second Starlink launch of the day.

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SpaceX could make $500 billion in 2028, Elon Musk says (video)

SpaceX started out as a launch company, but it has been transitioning into an artificial intelligence outfit —one that's poised to make huge profits in the coming years, Elon Musk says.

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Scientists create largest 2D map of the universe with 5.6 trillion pixels and nearly 4 billion cosmic objects

"It's part of the fabric of astronomy research now."

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Scientists find 2 million active black holes, exploding stars and more, nearly doubling our view of the high-energy universe

Astronomers have nearly doubled the number of known cosmic X-ray sources.

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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds': Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn, & Carol Kane on season 4's big leaps and 'outside the box' episodes

"I think the producers had more time to prepare for season 4 and every episode felt incredible on the page"

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1-billion-year-old Mars meteorite found in Algeria is like nothing we've seen from the Red Planet

Scientists found a Martian meteorite on Earth that is finally filling in a nearly 2-billion-year-old geology-history gap on the Red Planet.

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SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (video, photos)

SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast today (Aug. 11).

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NASA will chase the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse with balloons and a high-altitude jet

"Scientists can study the sun's corona in a way we can't from anywhere else in the solar system."

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What history can teach us about the future of property rights in space (op-ed)

Without property rights in space, one of the most important economic incentives for the commercial development — and ultimately the settlement — of celestial bodies is missing.

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Behold the majestic mane of the Lion Nebula | Space photo of the day for Aug. 11, 2026

The Lion Nebula glows gloriously in this new snapshot from the James Webb Space Telescope.

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