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NASA Shifts Primary Focus On Space Exploration, Puts Climate Science On Backburner: 'That's Why We Have...'

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced that the agency will now focus primarily on space exploration, shifting its emphasis away from climate and Earth science.

Benzinga

Ok, I Just Finished Reading Project Hail Mary, And Now I Need To Talk Out My Questions About THAT Character And The Movie

If you've read the book, you probably know who I'm talking about.

Cinemablend

7 top new movies and shows to stream this weekend on Netflix, Hulu and more (Aug. 15-17)

'Alien: Earth,' 'Eddington' and 'Night Always Comes' lead our weekend watch list

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Magic mushrooms: how scientists discovered fungi are the secret ingredient for restoring the world’s forests

Healthy fungal networks help trees and plants grow, making them key to successful reforestation. The only problem? Almost nothing is known about this subterranean ecology

The Guardian - UK

If you dogwhistle it, neo-Nazis will come: the ‘March for Australia’ – and the problems reporting it poses for media

News Corp tabloid reproduces event flyer complete with slogans. Plus: a landmark defamation ruling

The Guardian - AU

10 Hugo Award Winning Sci-Fi Books You Need To Read

If you don't, Hugo will be sad.

The Mary Sue

NASA's new sun-studying mission 'PUNCH' attains its final form in Earth orbit

The four spacecraft of NASA's PUNCH mission have successfully locked in place in Earth orbit.

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John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’

Gender-critical novelist urges writers to re-enter prize they boycotted and may ask judges not to shortlist his novella

The Guardian - UK

TRAPPIST-1d isn't the Earth-like planet scientists had hoped it to be, according to JWST data

As another world around TRAPPIST-1 shows no signs of an atmosphere, astronomers urge us not to give up hope for an Earth-like atmosphere on one of the other worlds in the system.

Space

A real-life Pandora? Newfound 'disappearing' planet in our neighboring star system could have a habitable moon, just like the Avatar movies

The recent discovery of a potential gas giant circling the nearby star Alpha Centauri A has led to speculation that it may be orbited in turn by a habitable moon that could support life, just like in the "Avatar" movies.

LiveScience

US Space Force's new deep space radar tracks multiple satellites 22,000 miles away in key test

The U.S. Space Force's powerful new military radar system designed to detect and track objects in distant orbits above Earth has passed an initial key test.

Space

Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane

A US military space-plane, the X-37B orbital test vehicle, is due to embark on its eighth flight into space on August 21 2025. Much of what the X-37B does in space is secret. But it serves partly as a platform for cutting-edge experiments.

The Conversation

Blue Origin pitches new 'Mars Telecommunications Orbiter' for Red Planet missions (video)

Blue Origin has used its Blue Ring spacecraft platform to develop the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter, which the company says could aid future NASA missions to the Red Planet.

Space

SpaceX sends 28 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Falcon 9 flight from Florida (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Florida on Thursday morning (Aug. 14), carrying 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit.

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I tried to image the Veil Nebula but accidentally got an 'Alien' Xenomorph (photo)

As 'Alien: Earth' hits screens, the night sky delivers a cameo from the franchise's iconic villain.

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Christine Baranski brands Katy Perry's Blue Origin flight 'grotesque'

Christine Baranski has shared her disgust at the "grotesque displays of wealth" from the all-female crew on the Blue Origins NS-31 flight.

Space

SpaceX Crew-11 Dragon spacecraft approaches the ISS | Space photo of the day for Aug. 14, 2025

SpaceX's Crew-11 mission delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft.

The Independent UK

Alien: Earth viewers blindsided by unlikely movie reference in new horror series

‘It’s heartwarming to know that in 2120 people are still seeing these movies,’ one excited fan wrote

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The Independent UK

Alien worlds may not necessarily need water for life, scientists find: ‘We just opened a Pandora’s box’

Salts in liquid form could host life on alien worlds, researchers suspect

Barchart

Up 380% in 2025, Is It Too Late to Buy MP Materials Stock?

MP Materials is a mining stock that has been on an absolute tear in 2025, rising close to 400% year-to-date. Is MP stock still a good buy?

The Independent UK

Africa is much bigger than you think. Here’s how you’ve been misled

A world map drawn in the 1500s is to blame

The Guardian - US

Why our broken food system remains a climate disaster: ‘broiling the planet to stuff our faces’

Author Michael Grunwald reckons with the challenge of food-based climate emissions in his new book We Are Eating the Earth

AAP

Rare earths race: plan to turn ash into critical metals

Researchers have come up with a bold plan to extract rare earth metals, critical to defence, technology and renewables, using coal mining waste.

Space

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California with new batch of Starlink satellites (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit after lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Aug. 14, 2025.

PC Gamer

Alien: Earth is the best thing to happen to the Alien universe since Isolation

The FX series is off to a heck of a good start, mostly because it's not trying to replicate the past.

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