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Join the Dark Side in new 'Star Wars Villainous' board game

Tabletop game publisher Ravensburger dives into the vast world of "Star Wars" by releasing its "Villainous" board game.

A month on 'Mars': Living on the EDGES

Devon Island is one of the most radio-quiet places in the northern hemisphere, a perfect place for the Haughton-Mars Project to conduct the EDGES experiment.

US launches unarmed ballistic missile from Vandenberg Space Force Base

The U.S. Air Force conducted an early-morning suborbital test of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, on Wednesday (Sept. 7).

Mysterious region of the sun shines in new photo from world's largest solar telescope

The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope could change how we explore the sun and our understanding of hazardous solar flares.

2nd huge eruption from the sun hammers Venus

Venus is being hammered by wild space weather this week after a giant sunspot, not visible from Earth, expelled an enormous plasma burst toward the scorching-hot planet.

Russia delays launch of Luna 25 moon lander to 2023

Russia's reactivation of lunar exploration via its robotic Luna 25 lander has slipped to 2023.

Vega, the Star at the Center of Everything

While we may quibble about how to pronounce its name, there's no denying that Vega is one of the most fascinating and useful stars in the heavens.

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James Webb Space Telescope spots alien planet shrouded in weird sand-filled clouds

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a strange exoplanet shrouded in clouds made of sand-like silicate grains.

Wow! Here's Webb's View of the Tarantula Nebula

Here’s the Tarantula Nebula like we’ve never seen it before. The James Webb Space Telescope turned its detectors towards the Large Magellanic Cloud about 161,000 lightyears away to take a look at 30 Doradus, more commonly known as the Tarantula Nebula. JWST’s exceptional infrared view has now revealed thousands of never-before-seen young stars in this stellar nursery, as well incredible views of the wispy, dusty filaments and the impressive collection of massive older stars.

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Live coverage: Ariane 5 rocket set for launch today in French Guiana

Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Eutelsat Konnect VHTS communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

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Missing carbon monoxide in planetary nurseries could be frozen in ice

A new astrophysical model confirmed by ALMA observations suggests that carbon monoxide missing from planetary nebulas could be frozen as undetectable ice.

Asteroids are Constantly Spitting out Pebbles

Asteroids are commonly thought of as solid balls of rock and metal – a place where Bruce Willis can land and stick a nuke into the middle of it. But as we learn more about them, it is becoming more evident that many asteroids are just piles of rubble held loosely together by gravity. So it might not be too big of a surprise when some of those pieces of rubble fly off of the asteroid itself. But it surprised scientists who first observed the phenomena on the asteroid Bennu when OSIRIS-REx visited it in 2019. Now a team led by researchers at the field museum found a meteorite that shows signs it underwent the same process.

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Saturn and a bright moon share the sky Wednesday (Sept. 7)

The waxing gibbous moon will pass near Saturn on Sept. 7 and 8. Meanwhile, the moon reaches perigee or its closest point along its orbit to the Earth.

Enter the virtual world with the HP Reverb G2 VR headset, now $200 off

The HP Reverb G2 is just $399 thanks to this huge discount but hurry, this Labor day deal ends soon.

SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn space crew talks about their ambitious mission (exclusive)

Polaris Dawn aims to launch in late 2022 for a mission including the first commercial spacewalk. Inspiration4 astronaut Jared Isaacman will once again fly in space.

Space junk threat: Researchers working to reduce impact of falling debris

Researchers are working to come up with ways to mitigate the space junk problem, one of which would use fabrication concepts to reduce the size of debris pieces that make it to Earth.

Astronomers spot 2 intriguing alien worlds around ultracool star

Astronomers have discovered two super-Earths orbiting an ultracool dwarf star 100 light-years away, and one of the planets could support the existence of liquid water, a vital ingredient of life.

The James Webb Space Telescope never disproved the Big Bang. Here's how that falsehood spread.

The story of how JWST's images of distant galaxies and the words of an astrophysicist were misused by science deniers to try and throw shade on the Big Bang.

Rubik's Cube solved in 19 seconds during zero-gravity flight (video)

Bailey Burns learned how to 'speed cube' to solve the Rubik's Cube puzzle in 19 seconds during a parabolic flight.

Massive asteroid 3 Juno shines in opposition on Wednesday (Sept. 7)

Asteroid 3 Juno, half the length of the Grand Canyon, will whip past Earth at an average speed 30 times that of a jet fighter on its 4-year orbit around our star.


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