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Space beer, anyone? Hops flying on SpaceX's private astronaut mission Inspiration4 will be auctioned for charity

Billionaire Jared Isaacman is looking for a brewery to make beer with space-flown hops — for a good cause.

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August full moon 2021: The 'Sturgeon Moon' swings by Jupiter this weekend

The full moon of August arrives Sunday (Aug. 22), after it makes a close pass to Jupiter and Saturn.

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NASA halts human moon lander work with SpaceX amid Blue Origin lawsuit

NASA must again stop work on its human moon lander partnership with SpaceX due to a Blue Origin lawsuit, further risking the agency's tight timeline to return astronauts to the moon.

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Epic radio images give most-detailed views of distant galaxies

The most detailed radio images of galaxies outside the Milky Way have been captured by a network of 70,000 radio antennas spread over nine European countries.

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NASA awards $500,000 to develop moon-mining tech

NASA has awarded a total of $500,000 to 13 different teams via its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, a competition designed to nurture the development of moon-mining tech.

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China's Mars rover Zhurong sets completes primary mission, gets life extension

China's Zhurong rover has completed its primary three-month-long expedition on Mars but is set to continue exploring the Red Planet.

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North America is surrounded by 4 storms and wildfire smoke in this satellite view

A stunning new satellite image captures four different storms churning in the skies above North America as the continent nears the peak of hurricane season.

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Record temperatures, fire clouds and drought ravage Earth in scorching-hot 2021

2021 is "virtually certain" to be one of the top 10 hottest years on record, and "fire clouds," could become a summer staple, scientists revealed in a monthly briefing today (Aug. 19).

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Svetlana Savitskaya: Second woman in space, 1st female spacewalker

Former cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya was the second woman to go to space, the first woman to perform a spacewalk and the first woman to go to space twice.

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How can we take pictures of Earth-like exoplanets? Use the sun!

If we ever want to take pictures of an Earth-like exoplanet, we need to think bigger than the biggest telescopes on Earth.

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'The Colony' trailer shows the struggle for survival upon returning to a once-ravaged Earth

Set in the distant future, a female astronaut, shipwrecked on the long-decimated Earth, must decide the fate of the wasteland's remaining populace in "The Colony."

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Physicists give weird new phase of matter an extra dimension

The new phase of matter behaves like a solid and a frictionless liquid at the same time

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Virgin Orbit is buying 2 more rocket-launching planes

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has rolled into a patch of ground that could shed considerable light on the Red Planet's climate history.

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Gaia Finds Ancient Satellite Galaxy Pontus Embedded in Milky Way

The Mercury-bound BepiColombo spacecraft recorded the sound of the solar wind at Venus as it flew just 340 miles above the planet during a maneuver designed to adjust its path.

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Here’s Perseverance, Seen From Space

On Aug. 9, Maxar Technologies' WorldView-3 satellite snapped a great shot of SpaceX's "Starbase" facility, where the company is building and testing its Starship deep-space transportation system.

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Russia will launch a film crew to the International Space Station Tuesday and you can watch it live

NASA and Star Trek are teaming up to celebrate what would have been the 100th birthday of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry today in a webcast event.

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It’ll Soon be Possible to Make Satellite Phone Calls With Your Regular Phone

The solar system's largest planet reaches opposition today (Aug. 19).

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NASA awards $415 million for private space stations amid ISS transition questions

Arianespace will launch dozens of internet satellites for the communications company OneWeb today (Aug. 19), and you can watch the liftoff live.

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The 1st trailer for 'Ripout,' a sci-fi horror shooter, is full of alien monsters

The game launches in 2022.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin targeting Aug. 25 for next spaceflight

Blue Origin is targeting Aug. 25 for the next flight of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle, company representatives announced today (Aug. 18).

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Lego Education unveils Spike Essentials to teach kids STEAM subjects

Lego Education has unveiled Spike Essentials as part of its Lego learning system to help teachers and encourage students in STEAM subjects.

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