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Apollo 14 astronaut's personal moon-flown Rolex watch sells for record $2.2 million

26 October, 2024 - 15:00
A Rolex watch that was flown to the moon is now the most expensive astronaut timepiece to sell at auction. The personal GMT-Master chronometer worn by Edgar Mitchell sold for $2.2 million.

More than just auroras: My Norwegian adventure with The Northern Lights Company

26 October, 2024 - 14:00
Join me on an unforgettable trip filled with breathtaking auroras and exciting daytime adventures with The Northern Lights Company.

Does alien life need a planet to survive? Scientists propose intriguing possibility

26 October, 2024 - 12:01
While such organisms may or may not exist in the universe, the research has important implications for future human endeavors in space.

'Star Trek: Lower Decks' scores an inventive interactive graphic novel, 'Warp Your Own Way'

26 October, 2024 - 00:00
IDW Publishing just delivered a zany new 'choose your own 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' adventure book, the series' first "interactive graphic novel."

James Webb Space Telescope finds 1st 'failed star' candidates beyond the Milky Way

25 October, 2024 - 23:00
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have potentially discovered the first brown dwarfs beyond the borders of the Milky Way galaxy.

See Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS eject a tail of gas and dust as it flies past the sun (photos)

25 October, 2024 - 22:00
Watch comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS light up the sky thanks to a free livestream on Monday, Oct. 21.

'Alien: Romulus' sequel in the works, new 'Alien vs. Predator' will 'probably' happen

25 October, 2024 - 21:00
Hot on the heels of Alien: Romulus' success at the global box office, Disney and 20th Century Studios are fast-tracking a direct sequel.

NASA's Robonaut-2 reunited with its ride into space at Smithsonian

25 October, 2024 - 17:00
NASA's space shuttle Discovery has been reunited with one of its last crew members. The National Air and Space Museum debuted Robonaut-2 (R2), NASA's first dexterous humanoid robot flown into space.

NASA's solar-sailing spacecraft has a bent boom in Earth orbit (photo)

25 October, 2024 - 16:26
The technology-demonstrating Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has a bent boom in Earth orbit, but NASA says it shouldn't be a big deal.

A meteorite 200 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid helped life on Earth flourish

25 October, 2024 - 16:00
The destructive power of asteroids is undeniable — just ask the dinosaurs. New research suggests a huge space rock that struck Earth over 3 billion years ago may have benefitted early life.

Listen to haunting sounds of Earth's magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago in eerie new animation

25 October, 2024 - 15:00
A new video shows how Earth's magnetic field weakened and warped before temporarily flipping during a recent "polar reversal event."

'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 5 episodes 1 and 2: Green Orions vs. Blue Orions, what's the difference?

25 October, 2024 - 14:00
D'Vana Tendi gets back to her Orion roots in "Star Trek: Lower Decks" season 5's opening episodes — and her species has a very long history in "Star Trek."

Massive, bustling Perseus galaxy cluster dazzles in new telescope image

25 October, 2024 - 12:00
Deep in the heart of the massive Perseus cluster, giant galaxies stir, stars are torn from their homes and hot gas radiates at more than 1 million degrees Celsius.

Crew-8 astronauts splash down on SpaceX Dragon Endeavour after weather delays (video)

25 October, 2024 - 09:55
Crew-8 is back on Earth after an extended mission and a wait for the weather to clear. Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin splashed down on Dragon Endeavour.

Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace plans to start launching space tourists in 2027

24 October, 2024 - 23:00
Chinese company Deep Blue Aerospace plans to start launching customers to suborbital space and back in 2027, for a price of about $210,000 per seat.

Watch sun erupt in 1st images from NOAA's groundbreaking new satellite (photos)

24 October, 2024 - 22:00
NOAA shared new images taken by the world's first operational space-based coronagraph, CCOR-1, captured during a solar storm outburst.

Breakthrough coming? Iceland could get solar power from space in 2030

24 October, 2024 - 16:00
A British startup plans to supply solar power from space to Icelanders by 2030, in what could be the world's first demonstration of the novel renewable energy source.

Watch sun unleash major X-flare in epic solar eruption (video)

24 October, 2024 - 15:55
We could expect even more eruptions from this sunspot region in the coming days as it rotates to face Earth.

Launch startup Astra gets up to $44 million from US military for new 'Rocket 4' line

24 October, 2024 - 15:00
Launch startup Astra has secured a contract with the US military, worth up to $44 million, to continue developing its new Rocket 4 vehicle.

Saturn gets its 1st confirmed Trojan asteroid — but it might be stolen

24 October, 2024 - 14:00
Saturn has finally joined the solar system's other giant planets in possessing a Trojan asteroid, but it may have stolen it. The bouncing asteroid seems to have originated in the Kuiper belt.

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