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Watch an exclusive clip from the CNN' 'Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight' finale (video)

12 April, 2024 - 21:00
CNN's space documentary, "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight" reaches its finale on April 14. You can watch an exclusive clip now.

'Fly Me to the Moon' trailer mixes real-life Apollo history with moon landing hoax

12 April, 2024 - 20:00
Watching the new trailer for the upcoming movie "Fly Me to the Moon" might leave you thinking that it is an entire work of fiction. And for the most part, you would be correct.

HALO Space unveils capsule design for stratospheric space 'glamping'

12 April, 2024 - 19:42
Spanish start-up HALO Space has unveiled its capsule design for stratospheric space tourism.

One of the universe's most 'extreme' dead stars just sprang back to life unexpectedly

12 April, 2024 - 18:00
The closest extreme magnetic dead star or magnetar to Earth suddenly burst back to life to give astronomers a sight of unexpected and unexplained phenomena that are unlike anything seen before.

'Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight' documentary set to conclude on CNN

12 April, 2024 - 17:38
CNN is set to conclude airing a four-part series on space shuttle Columbia's ill-fated last return to Earth. "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight" airs on Sunday (April 14).

SpaceX to launch a Falcon 9 rocket first stage for a record 20th time tonight

12 April, 2024 - 17:06
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage is set to lift off for a record-setting 20th time on Friday (April 12), sending 23 Starlink internet satellites to orbit.

No, you didn't see a solar flare during the total eclipse — but you may have seen something just as special

12 April, 2024 - 16:02
Several media outlets have incorrectly claimed that explosive solar flares were spotted during the April 8 total solar eclipse. But there were no flares during totality, so what did people see?

Fallout and the Space Age: The franchise's connections and nods to the final frontier

12 April, 2024 - 15:00
The Fallout video game franchise (now also a streaming series) is known for its unique take on the post-apocalypse, but it's also quite interested in outer space.

Sierra Space wants to drop cargo from orbit to anywhere on Earth in 90 minutes

12 April, 2024 - 14:00
Sierra Space has unveiled a new "global payload delivery" system known as Ghost that is designed to drop vital payloads from orbit to anywhere on Earth's surface within 90 minutes.

My formal 2024 solar eclipse apology

12 April, 2024 - 00:00
I used to be an eclipse hater, and now I'm not. That's the story.

Achoo! Baby star 'sneezes' tell astronomers a lot about their development

11 April, 2024 - 23:00
Achoo! Baby stars "sneeze" to rid themselves of excess energy during their formation process, astronomers using the ALMA telescope array have found.

A NASA spacecraft spotted something weird orbiting the moon. It was just a lunar neighbor (photos)

11 April, 2024 - 21:00
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) snapped a perfectly timed photo as it crossed paths with another spacecraft orbiting the moon.

Monster star gains magnetic personality following stellar merger

11 April, 2024 - 20:26
A rare massive star possessing a magnetic field could have produced its dynamo after merging with another star.

Car-sized asteroid gives Earth a super-close shave with flyby closer than some satellites

11 April, 2024 - 19:29
A newly discovered space rock will harmlessly pass by Earth today. Still, at less than a tenth the distance to the moon, asteroid 2024 GJ2 will miss the planet by the skin of its teeth.

'Star Wars: Tales of the Empire' sets surprise May the 4th debut on Disney Plus (video)

11 April, 2024 - 19:00
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one. Before The Acolyte, Star Wars animation will return to our screens with Tales of the Empire, a brand-new anthology series.

Gravitational waves reveal 1st-of-its-kind merger between neutron star and mystery object

11 April, 2024 - 18:33
The mystery object, which falls right within the mass-gap range, sheds light on a long-sought, murky realm.

Trains, planes and a total solar eclipse! Watching the moon block the sun was a transportation adventure (exclusive)

11 April, 2024 - 18:00
My family has been in transportation for generations, in planes and trains. I finally got my two ancestral lines to meet, eclipse-style, at a Canadian rail station near an airport.

Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, dies at 89

11 April, 2024 - 18:00
Soviet-era cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov, who flew into space twice, has died at the age of 89. Aksyonov logged almost 12 days in space and orbited Earth 189 times.

Space weather can make it hard to predict satellite trajectories. Here's why that's a problem

11 April, 2024 - 16:00
Satellites in low Earth orbit can be hundreds of miles off their expected trajectories when bad space weather hits.

Why Peter Higgs leaves a massive legacy in the field of physics

11 April, 2024 - 00:00
On April 8, 2024, Peter Higgs passed away. Pioneering the discovery of the Higgs boson, the mark the theoretical physicist has left on physics is immense.

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