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Minecraft goes cosmic with new Jedi-centric 'Star Wars: Path of the Jedi DLC' (video)

A preview and new trailer for Minecraft's latest 'Star Wars' DLC titled 'Path of the Jedi.'

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Dark matter data salvaged from balloon-borne telescope that landed hard on Earth

Science data from a damaged balloon-borne telescope was salvaged, thanks to old-fashioned SD drives.

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Earth has many objects in orbit but definitely only one moon — despite what some people think

While the term “planet” has a clear definition, there is no strict definition of a moon. We can either say that there is one moon around Earth, or more than 160 million moons.

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US military taps Rocket Lab to launch hypersonic test vehicle in 2025

Rocket Lab will launch a drone on its suborbital launch vehicle as part of a U.S. Defense Department hypersonic development project.

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Comets that 'bounce' from planet to planet could spread life across the universe

Scientists suspect that comets may have delivered the key ingredients for life on Earth, and new research outlines how exoplanets could have received these deliveries, too.

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Lego unveils epic Marvel Avengers Tower set with Black Friday deals and offers for Insiders

Lego has raised the bar for Black Friday deals with a ton of offers Lego Insiders rolling out with one of the biggest Lego sets I've ever seen: the Marvel Avengers Tower.

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The Apollo program continues to inspire 'moonshots' in the 21st century

While landing humans on the moon was indeed historic and the boot-kicked lunar dust has settled, perhaps that achievement had more of an impact on society than we realized.

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SpaceX says its 2nd Starship test flight could launch on Nov. 17 (video)

SpaceX says its next Starship launch could occur as early as Nov. 17, pending regulatory approval from the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies.

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SpaceX set to launch 90 payloads to orbit on 'rideshare' mission today

SpaceX is poised to launch its Transporter-9 mission today (Nov. 11), a 'rideshare' flight that will loft 90 payloads to orbit.

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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 87 — One Lunar Fizz Please

On Episode 87 of This Week In Space, Tariq and Rod discuss drinking in space with Colleen McLeod Garner.

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Volcanic 'devil comet' resprouts its horns after erupting again

The massive volcanic comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which grows giant horns when it erupts, has exploded for a third time in five months as it continues to race toward the sun.

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The Taurid meteor shower peaks tonight. Here's how to see it.

The Northern Taurid meteor shower peaks overnight on Nov. 11, offering the chance to see fireballs created by debris from Comet 2P/Encke burning up in Earth's atmosphere.

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These highly rated lightsabers are at their lowest ever price ahead of Black Friday

We rate these lightsabers as some of the best on the market and now they're at their lowest ever price on Amazon, ahead of Black Friday.

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Satellite data and 100-year-old images reveal quickening retreat of Greenland's glaciers

Using a combination of historical aerial photographs and satellite imagery of Greenland, scientists have analyzed the movement of more than 1,000 peripheral glaciers from 1890 to 2022. They've discovered the rate of retreat for these peripheral glaciers has doubled in the last 20 years.

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Watch SpaceX Dragon capsule arrive at the space station early on Nov. 11

A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Nov. 11), and you can watch the action live.

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International Space Station dodges orbital debris hours before SpaceX cargo ship's arrival: report

The International Space Station moved away fromdodged space debris on Friday (Nov. 10), Russian space officials said, hours before a SpaceX cargo ship aims to arrive.

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'Lunar swirls' have confused scientists for years. New NASA moon data might clear things up

"Finding a relationship with topography in one swirl location could just be a fluke, but finding it in two vastly separate swirl regions is harder to ignore."

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'For All Mankind' season 4 episode 1 review: Lots of moving parts but light on plot

Apple TV Plus's alternative history of the space race blasts off for the 21st century and an audacious mission to capture an asteroid.

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A volcanic eruption gave birth to a new island, and a NASA satellite saw it from space (photo)

From its orbit around Earth NASA's Landsat-9 has spotted a newly birthed island off the coast of Japan. The island was forged in fire on Oct.30 when an underwater volcanic eruption rocked the Pacific.

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Astronauts dropped a tool bag during an ISS spacewalk, and you can see it with binoculars

It's an odd astronomy target, but a tool bag that gave astronauts the slip during a spacewalk at the International Space Station is surprisingly bright and can be seen with binoculars.

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Jupiter's winds whip around in 'cylindrical' form, NASA's Juno probe discovers

NASA's Juno spacecraft has found that Jupiter's winds whip around the planet's turbulent atmosphere cylindrically.

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