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Marvel streaming guide: Where to watch the Marvel movies and TV shows online

Looking to indulge in some Marvel magic? Here’s our ultimate Marvel streaming guide on where to watch all the movies and TV shows from the MCU.

Nearly total Beaver Moon lunar eclipse, longest of its kind in 580 years, wows stargazers

Skywatchers across North America and beyond got a first class view of the longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years, though for some, weather ruined the experience.

Meet LICIACube, the small but mighty spacecraft that will watch NASA's epic DART asteroid crash

The small LICIACube spacecraft will watch its robotic colleague, NASA's DART mission, smash into an asteroid and sending the footage back to Earth.

Space station astronauts resume normal operations after Russian anti-satellite missile test

Astronauts at the International Space Station have returned to normal operations after a couple of adrenalin-filled days following a Russian anti-satellite missile test that threw an out-of-control cloud of space debris into the station's orbit. 

Beaver Moon lunar eclipse 2021: Amazing photos of the longest partial moon eclipse in 580 years

See photos of the Beaver Moon lunar eclipse of Nov. 18-19, 2021 here as seen by skywatchers and Space.com readers around the world.

Canon 10x42L IS WP binoculars review

The Canon 10x42L IS WP are an outstanding choice for super-steady stargazing thanks to their fabulous image stabilization, waterproof design and large objective lenses.

This Week's Sky at a Glance, November 19 – 27

Orion now rises in the east around 8 p.m. Will Betelgeuse or Rigel be the first of his bright stars to come up? That depends on your latitude; Los Angeles and Atlanta are balance points. The Pleiades and Aldebaran watch this scene from high above.

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Earth from Space: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

SpinLaunch Hurls a Test Vehicle Kilometers Into the air. Eventually, it’ll Throw Them Almost all the way to Orbit

For today’s commercial space companies providing launch services to orbit, the name of the game is simple: “do it cheaper.” To reduce the costs of launching payloads to space and encourage the commercialization of Low Earth Orbit (LEO), entrepreneurs have turned to everything from reusable rockets and 3-D printing to air-launch vehicles and high-altitude balloons. And yet, there is one concept that truly seems like something out of this world!

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NASA's huge James Webb Space Telescope is one month from launch

The long-awaited launch of NASA's next generational observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, is just one month away.

Astra aims to reach orbit for 1st time with early Friday launch: Watch it live

Astra aims to reach orbit for the first time early Friday morning (Nov. 19), and you can watch the action live.

The Beaver Moon lunar eclipse won't be a true 'blood moon,' but it may look red. Here's why.

The Beaver Moon partial eclipse will probably turn the moon dark Friday (Nov. 19) even though it's not a true "blood moon."

The greatest asteroid encounters of all time!

Asteroids are important building blocks of our solar system. When spacecraft study these small worlds, we learn more about how our neighborhood was formed — moons, planets and, of course, our own planet Earth.

Did Astronomers Spot a Black Hole in Another Galaxy? Maybe Not

Astronomers might have spotted a stellar-mass black hole in another galaxy — but not everyone agrees with what they found.

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The 'Star Trek: Discovery' season 4 premiere is not one of its strongest starts (review)

Season 4 of "Star Trek: Discovery" is back on Paramount Plus and its premiere episode is a little uneven to say the least.

Eggshell Planets Have a Thin Brittle Crust and No Mountains or Tectonics

Planets without plate tectonics are unlikely to be habitable. But currently, we’ve never seen the surface of an exoplanet to determine if plate tectonics are active. Scientists piece together their likely surface structures from other evidence. Is there a way to determine what exoplanets might be eggshells, and eliminate them as potentially habitable?

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Ultrahot 'superionic' ice is a new state of matter

To create the ice, the scientists had to squeeze a water droplet to 3.5 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure and heat it hotter than the sun.

Rocket Lab recovers booster after successful launch with BlackSky satellites

An Electron rocket lifts off from Rocket Lab’s spaceport on the North Island of New Zealand with two BlackSky optical remote sensing satellites. Credit: Rocket Lab

Rocket Lab launched two small BlackSky optical Earth-imaging satellites Wednesday from New Zealand, the first of three straight Electron rocket flights for the U.S. remote sensing company.

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Wormholes may be viable shortcuts through space-time after all, new study suggests

Wormholes may be stable after all, a new theory suggests, contradicting previous predictions that these hypothetical shortcuts through space-time would instantly collapse.

Russia's anti-satellite missile test could have easily obliterated the International Space Station

What's the worst that could happen from the Russian missile test that blasted more than 1,500 pieces of space debris into Earth orbit?

LightSail 2 has Been Flying for 30 Months now, Paving the way for Future Solar Sail Missions

Even after 30 months in space, The Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 mission continues to successfully “sail on sunbeams” demonstrating solar sail technology in Earth orbit. The mission is providing hard data for future missions that hope to employ solar sails to explore the cosmos.

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