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SpaceX rolls out Falcon Heavy rocket ahead of Tuesday launch (photo)

SpaceX rolled its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket to the launch pad on Monday (Oct. 31) ahead of a planned liftoff a day later.

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'Invaders From Mars' are landing! Celebrate 70th anniversary with restored Blu-Ray and 4K versions

Ignite Films releases 70th anniversary Blu-ray and 4K UHD restoration of 1953's classic sci-fi tale "Invaders From Mars."

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NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket 'on track' to roll out to pad Friday (Nov. 4)

NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket is once again headed back to the launch pad on Friday (Nov. 4) ahead of its historic lunar mission.

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'Play ball!' Space station astronauts celebrate World Series with an orbital pitch

A Japanese astronaut briefly doubled as catcher as NASA astronauts celebrated their hometown Houston Astros meeting the Philadelphia Phillies in the end-of-season series.

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China launches mysterious Shiyan-20C satellite to orbit (video)

The classified Shiyan-20C satellite lifted off on Friday (Oct. 28), riding a Long March 2D rocket into the sky from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China.

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Collapsed Arecibo Observatory reveals final 'treasure trove' to defend Earth from asteroids

The study is the largest ever on radar observations of near-Earth asteroids.

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NASA plans its second human moon landing on Artemis 4 after all: report

Artemis 4 will land on the moon as soon as 2027 instead of continuing to build out a supporting NASA-led lunar station called Gateway.

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Mars moon mystery: Strange structures found inside 'fearful' Phobos

Europe's Mars Express spacecraft has peered deep into the subsurface of the Martian moon Phobos, finding unknown structures that could reveal the moon's origin.

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Satellite peers at a creepy iceberg's 'Halloween crack' (photo)

The iceberg tip is "hanging by a thread" due to ongoing climate change in Antarctica.

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Haunting photo of dead star's 'ghost' released for Halloween

The European Space Observatory (ESO) has released an image of a dead star's 'ghost' in deep space just in time for Halloween.

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China launches final module to complete Tiangong space station (video)

The Mengtian module launched to Earth orbit atop a Long March 5B heavy-lift rocket from Wenchang, south China, on Monday (Oct. 31).

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Hubble spies a cosmic 'spider web' containing clues to dark secret

The eerie Hubble Space Telescope image was released for the "spooky season" surrounding Halloween

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'Planet killer' asteroid found hiding in sun's glare may one day hit Earth

A giant asteroid that might one day cross paths with Earth has been discovered hiding in the glare of the sun.

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Asteroids threatening Earth could be spotted by network of spacecraft near Venus' orbit, Chinese scientists say

We could detect potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids by using six surveyor spacecraft deployed in Venus-like orbits, Chinese researchers propose.

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Halloween night sky 2022: See Jupiter, Mars and maybe some spooky fireballs

Skies will be mainly clear tonight (Oct. 31) across the contiguous United States; making for ideal Halloween skywatching conditions. What will you be looking out for?

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Watch SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch for 1st time since 2019 on Tuesday

After more than three years, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy — the world's most powerful operational rocket — is about to launch again.

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NASA has a life-detecting instrument ready to fly to Europa or Enceladus

OWLS, the Ocean Worlds Life Surveyor, would autonomously search for life on the icy moons of the outer solar system.

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Launch of JPSS-2 weather satellite delayed to Nov. 9

JPSS-2 and the LOFTID technology demonstration will now launch no earlier than Nov. 9, because a battery on the upper stage of their Atlas V rocket ride needs to be replaced.

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NASA seeks origin of 'weird' fast-spinning dwarf planet Haumea

The dwarf planet Haumea may be the weirdest object in the solar system. Now NASA researchers may finally understand how it was formed.

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Dracarys! This spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco is helping astronomers measure the universe

Unlike House of the Dragon, the bright heat from this celestial monster is nothing to be feared. In fact, it's a super helpful tool that helps gauge the expansion of the universe.

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A skyscraper-sized 'potentially hazardous' asteroid will zip through Earth's orbit on Halloween

A newly discovered, "potentially hazardous" asteroid almost the size of the world's tallest skyscraper is set to tumble past Earth just in time for Halloween, according to NASA.

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