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SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on company's 40th mission of 2024 (video)

SpaceX launched its 40th mission of 2024 this evening (April 18), sending yet another batch of the company's Starlink internet satellites skyward.

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Sorry, little green men: Alien life might actually be purple

The search for alien life can now include purple bacteria, thanks to a new catalog of chemical makeup of the lavender-hued organisms.

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Zack Snyder on sticking the landing for the 2nd half of Netflix's 'Rebel Moon' (exclusive)

An exclusive interview with Zack Snyder about "Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver."

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Russia launches new Angara A5 heavy-lift rocket on 4th orbital test mission (photos)

Russia's Angara A5 rocket lifted off on April 11, marking the fourth launch of the first rocket developed by Russia since the fall of the USSR in 1991.

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'Devil Comet' 12P/Pons-Brooks is heading for the sun. Will it survive?

'Devil Comet' 12P/Pons-Brooks is hurtling toward the sun where it will make its closest approach on April 21. We take a look at whether this celestial vagabond will survive.

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'Star Trek: Discovery' season 5 episode 4 uses time travel to remember the past 5 seasons

Tragically, in an attempt to make the actual plot work, we're drowned in absurd amounts of technobabble. Once you get past that, it's actually all right.

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Jupiter's violent moon Io has been the solar system's most volcanic body for around 4.5 billion years

Jupiter's moon Io is the solar system's most volcanic body thanks to a gravitational tug of war that rages below its surface. But now scientists know the violent moon has always been this way.

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Alt-space history series 'For All Mankind' gets 5th season, new 'Star City' spinoff

Apple TV+ is headed back to the past, and the future, with a fifth season of "For All Mankind" and new spinoff "Star City." Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are returning to lead both.

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NASA greenlights 2028 launch for epic Dragonfly mission to Saturn's huge moon Titan

The Dragonfly mission is set to launch in July 2028 on a six-year journey to Saturn's largest moon, Titan.

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NASA still investigating Orion heat shield issues from Artemis 1 moon mission

NASA is still studying the performance of the Orion capsule's heat shield during its reentry to Earth's atmosphere at the end of the Artemis 1 moon mission in late 2022.

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Sweden becomes 38th country to sign NASA's Artemis Accords for moon exploration

Sweden is the latest nation to sign onto NASA's Artemis Accords on April 16, following Switzerland's signing earlier this week.

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Ingenuity team says goodbye to pioneering Mars helicopter

The Ingenuity Mars helicopter team met one last time on Tuesday (April 16) to oversee a transmission from the little rotorcraft.

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Boom's XB-1 test plane gets FAA green light for supersonic flight

Boom Supersonic's XB-1 experimental jet has been cleared for supersonic flight by the FAA.

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Saturn's 'Death Star' moon Mimas may have gotten huge buried ocean from ringed planet's powerful pull

The discovery of vast subsurface seas on Saturn's tiny moon Mimas has redefined our view of what an ocean world can be. We may now know how this buried ocean was formed, revealing it is shockingly young.

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Mysterious dark matter may leave clues in 'strings of pearls' trailing our galaxy

Starting in late 2025, the Vera C. Rubin observatory will image the outskirts of our galaxy in search of dark matter clues.

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James Webb Space Telescope's 'shocking' discovery may hint at hidden exomoon around 'failed star'

JWST's surprise discovery of methane emissions and likely aurorae over a distant brown dwarf could indicate this "failed star" is orbited by an active moon.

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SETI chief says US has no evidence for alien technology. 'And we never have'

For the chief leader of the SETI Institute, established to search for and understand life beyond Earth, there's a need to step back and cuddle up to a cup of cosmic reality.

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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites from Florida (photo, video)

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast this evening (April 17), and landed its rocket on a ship at sea.

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Exotic 'Einstein ring' suggests that mysterious dark matter interacts with itself

The unexplained mass of a remarkably massive galaxy suggests that dark matter interacts with itself, according to new observations by the James Webb Space Telescope.

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'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 4 blasts onto Blu-ray and DVD on April 16

A preview of the "Star Trek: Lower Decks" Season 4 Blu-ray and DVD, which was released today (April 16).

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Monster black hole seen feeding on nearby matter just 1 billion years after Big Bang (photos)

The robotic telescopes of the Virtual Telescope Project have observed a quasar powered by a supermassive black hole 3 billion times as massive as the sun at the very edge of the universe

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Will the constellations ever change?

BepiColombo spotted an outpour of carbon and oxygen atoms in Venus' fragile magnetic environment

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Switzerland signs Artemis Accords to join NASA in moon exploration

Switzerland became the 37th country to sign the Artemis Accords for peaceful moon exploration with NASA on April 15, following the inclusion of Greece and Uruguay in February.

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James Webb Space Telescope full-size model to be displayed by Space Foundation

To see the premier astronomical observatory in its full-size glory, you need to go to Lagrange Point 2, a location farther away than anyone has traveled. Or, soon, you can visit Colorado.

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Dark energy could be getting weaker, suggesting the universe will end in a 'Big Crunch'

The first year of Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) data seems to show that dark energy is weakening over time, possibly the biggest cosmological discovery for 25 years.

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