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November 21
- NASA's Curiosity rover captures 360-degree view of Mars — and finds strange sulfur stones
November 20
- Final trailer for Prime Video's 'Secret Level' looks out of this world
- Watch Russian Progress cargo spacecraft launch to the ISS on Nov. 21
- Supermassive black holes bent the laws of physics to grow to monstrous sizes
- The not so 'wicked' path from 'The Wizard of Oz' to the moon landing
- Black Friday Bargain: The best Sony camera for astrophotography is over $930 cheaper
- 'There are lots of mysteries in our backyard': Revised solar system chemistry explains long-standing puzzles
- Did NASA's Perseverance rover really find organics on Mars? These scientists aren't so sure
- ISS fires thrusters to dodge hunk of space junk
- Somewhere in the multiverse, dark energy is helping stars and life form
- Scientists find extremely young exoplanet orbiting star with a wonky disk
- Solar Orbiter spacecraft captures sharpest views yet of sun's surface (images)
- 'Superhighways' connecting the cosmic web could unlock secrets about dark matter
- I love this Star Trek-themed underwear and it's now got a 20% discount for Black Friday
- See Mars make a close pass to the moon tonight
- 'It's bananas:' Toy fruit becomes first zero-g indicator to fly on SpaceX Starship
- The Unistellar eQuinox 2 is our top-rated smart telescope and now has a $500 price cut in this Black Friday deal
- 'Mind-blowing' dark energy instrument results show Einstein was right about gravity — again
- Trump watches SpaceX launch Starship's 6th test flight (photos)
November 19
- Pentagon UFO chief tells Senate 'very anomalous objects' need careful study (video)
- SpaceX Starship launches banana to space, skips giant rocket catch on 6th test flight (video, photos)
- India's Chandrayaan-2 moon orbiter avoids collision with South Korea's Danuri spacecraft
- Geminid meteor shower is underway. Here's what to expect from one of the best meteor showers of the year
- Trump to attend SpaceX Starship's 6th flight test today
- SpaceX Starlink satellites seen as ‘wonky streaks’ by ISS astronaut (photos)
- Rocket Lab signs 1st customer for its powerful new Neutron rocket. But who is it?
- Green auroras and a SpaceX Dragon glow in new astronaut photos from the ISS
- These 5 stunning galaxy images tell us a story of cosmic evolution
- Dark matter might make space-time ring like a bell around black holes — and we might be able to 'hear' it
- How to watch SpaceX launch Flight 6 of its Starship megarocket today
November 18
- 'Star Trek Generations' at 30: Director David Carson reflects on The Nexus and Kirk's quiet death (exclusive)
- Blue Origin targeting Nov. 22 for next space tourism launch
- Rocket startup ABL Space Systems ends orbital launch plans, pivots to missile defense
- Pentagon UFO office testifies to US Senate today. Watch it live here (video)
- SpaceX's epic Starship Super Heavy rocket catch looked just like the company imagined (side-by-side video)
- SpaceX fuels up Starship megarocket in key test ahead of 6th test flight (photos)
- Aurora forecast: Will the northern lights be visible tonight?
- A distant planet seems to have a sulphur-rich atmosphere, hinting at alien volcanoes
- 'Dune: Prophecy' episode 1 - 'The Hidden Hand': Will Valya's Sisterhood shape the flow of galactic power?
- Hubble Telescope witnesses Milky Way strip its galactic neighbor of gas
- India plans to build a moon-orbiting space station by 2040
- 'Silo' Season 2 Episode 1: What happened to Silo 17's tragic rebel uprising?
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe is solving long-standing mysteries about the sun. Here's what we've learned so far.
- SpaceX launches heavy satellite in 1st mission for India's space agency (video, photos)
- What to expect during SpaceX's 6th Starship test flight on Nov. 19
November 17
- SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites from California (video, photos)
- SpaceX launches Optus-X telecom satellite from Florida in gorgeous sunset liftoff (video, photos)
- Why does everything look flat even though the Earth is round?
- Space-flown Choctaw Nation seeds to be planted on Earth for STEM experiment
- 'Lunik Heist:' A real-life CIA rocket kidnapping goes to Hollywood
November 16
- Last supermoon of 2024 wows skywatchers around the world with Full Beaver Moon (photos)
- Where did the universe's magnetic fields come from?
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 137 — Strange New Worlds
- Documentary director redefines astronaut Eileen Collins as the 'Spacewoman' (interview)
- USC students set world record with high-flying rocket launch (video)
- SpaceX stacks Flight 6 Starship megarocket ahead of Nov. 19 launch (photos)
November 15
- What time is SpaceX's Starship Flight 6 launch test today?
- Next Blue Origin space tourism flight will launch 'Space Gal' Emily Calandrelli
- Europe's Hera asteroid probe heads for Mars after engine burn
- Mars meteorite found in drawer reveals history of water on Red Planet
- The ISS has been leaking for 5 years. NASA and Russia disagree on how to fix it
- UFOs 'not attributable to foreign adversaries," new Pentagon report says
- Lava could light up the James Webb Space Telescope's search for watery exoplanets
- Best beginner binoculars are down to their lowest-ever price ahead of Black Friday
- Donald Trump's approach to US space policy could throw up some surprises, especially with Elon Musk on board
- Humanoid robot may fly on China's Chang'e 8 moon mission in 2028
- 'Silo' returns for season 2 on Apple TV+: What's in store for Juliette and the Silo 18 survivors?
- Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket to launch AST SpaceMobile's huge BlueBird smartphone satellites
- The Leonid meteor shower peaks is peaking now. Are 'shooting stars' in the forecast for 2024?
- Watch Beaver Moon supermoon rise today in free livestream
- Aurora activity is just getting started. Here's why the best northern lights are yet to come.
- Did NASA's Viking landers accidentally kill life on Mars? Why one scientist thinks so
November 14
- SpaceX rolls Starship Flight 6 Super Heavy rocket to pad ahead of Nov. 19 launch (photos)
- NASA rockets seed artificial clouds below glowing auroras in Norway (photo)
- FAA creating new committee to update launch regulations
- Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
- China launches Tianzhou 8 cargo mission to Tiangong space station (video)
- Brilliant fireball explodes over North America as satellites capture flash from space (video)
- Is this the best Black Friday camera deal ever? The Canon EOS R5 is nearly $1500 off the MSRP
- First quilter in space challenges students, crafters to stitch the moon
- 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 5 episode 5: What's the problem with Starbase 80?
- 'Hawking radiation' may be erasing black holes. Watching it happen could reveal new physics.
- This Lego Star Wars Droideka set is now 20% off ahead of Black Friday
- Artemis 2's Orion capsule goes into altitude chamber to prep for 2025 moon mission (photo)
- Blue Origin stacks huge New Glenn rocket ahead of 1st launch (photo)
- Could a supernova ever destroy Earth?
- SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on 2nd leg of spaceflight doubleheader (video)
November 13
- All astronauts on the ISS are in 'outstanding health': NASA's chief medical officer debunks tabloid rumors
- Former Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides wins seat in US Congress
- SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites from California (video)
- UFO whistleblowers tell Congress 'we are not alone in the cosmos' (video)
- Get a sneak peak at the incredible sci-fi coming to Disney+ in 2025 (video)
- The sun's poles may have powerful magnetic tornadoes
- SpaceX rolls Starship Flight 6 spacecraft to pad ahead of Nov. 19 launch — and it's wearing a banana (photos)
- The final supermoon of 2024 rises tonight as November's Full Beaver Moon
- Surprised Russian school kids discover Arctic island has vanished after comparing satellite images
- 'Snowball Earth:' Entire planet was likely covered in ice more than 600 million years ago
- Galaxies get tangled up in 'the queen's hair' in new Hubble Telescope image
- NASA dealing with aging ISS and spacewalk hardware: 'None of our spacesuits are spring chickens'
- Trump appoints SpaceX's Elon Musk to help head regulation-slashing 'Department of Government Efficiency'
- NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab laying off 5% of its workforce
November 12
- 'I weigh the same': NASA astronaut Suni Williams refutes tabloid health claims (video)
- China's Mars rover Zhurong finds possible shoreline of ancient Red Planet ocean
- Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time
- 'Crumb trails' of meteoroids could reveal potentially dangerous comets years before they reach Earth
- Marvel superheroes explore strange timelines in new trailer for 'What If…?' Season 3 (video)
- Open Gateway: Step into mock lunar orbit habitat at Space Center Houston
- Disney+ announces official 'Andor' Season 2 premiere date and teases TIE fighter heist
- James Webb Space Telescope finds galaxies pointing toward a dark matter alternative
- Chinese private rocket launches 1st satellite for international customer
- China reveals reusable cargo shuttle design for Tiangong space station (video)
- Good news everyone! 'The Art of Futurama' by Matt Groening crash lands today
- Mysterious, city-size 'centaur' comet gets 300 times brighter after quadruple cold-volcanic eruption
- A black hole's secrets could hide in its dizzying light 'echoes'
- Top 10 best Lego deals we've spotted: Black Friday 2024
- Scientists found 'nitriles' in an interstellar cloud — here's why that could be huge
November 11
- US Congress will hold another UFO hearing today. Here's how to watch
- What a 2nd Trump administration could mean for NASA and space exploration
- The US is now at risk of losing to China in the race to send people back to the Moon’s surface
- Starlink satellite falls to Earth, burns up as stunning fireball over US (video)
- Jupiter's storms and its 'potato' moon Amalthea stun in new NASA Juno probe images
- At 60 years, monument to NASA's Project Mercury still stands, but what of its time capsule?
- How can Jupiter have no surface? A dive into a planet so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths
- Star cities: New 3D view of globular clusters illuminates their origins (photo)
- SpaceX rocket launches Koreasat-6A satellite, lands Falcon 9 booster on record-tying 23rd flight (video)
- Supermassive black holes prefer to eat from wobbly plates
November 10
- SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites from Florida, lands rocket at sea, after weather delay (video)
- 'Mass Effect' TV series is headed to Amazon Prime Video
- Star Wars is following in the MCU's footsteps, but is this the way?
- NASA's Roman space telescope gets ready to stare at distant suns to find alien planets
November 9
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 136 — SpaceX Ascendant
- Where do fast radio bursts come from? Astronomers tie mysterious eruptions to massive galaxies
- China's space agency brought the 1st lunar far side samples to Earth this year — here's what's next
- Australian company Gilmour Space gets country's 1st orbital launch license
November 8
- 4 years after the giant Arecibo Observatory collapsed, we finally know what happened
- NASA still mum about SpaceX Crew-8 astronaut's medical issue
- Boom Supersonic's XB-1 jet sets new speed record during 7th test flight
- New 'Star Wars' trilogy set at Lucasfilm with 'Rebels' writer and producer Simon Kinberg
- An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd 'imminent impactor' of 2024
- China planning to build its own version of SpaceX's Starship
- SpaceX Dragon fires thrusters to boost ISS orbit for the 1st time
- Axiom Space looks to India and Europe for rockets to help build its private space station
- Adorable 3D-printed rovers learn to find blue ball in Mars-like environment
- Save $300 on the best-motorized telescope before Black Friday
- On ancient Mars, carbon dioxide ice kept the water running. Here's how
- 'Alien: Romulus' bursts onto Hulu for streaming on Nov. 21
- 3D map reveals our solar system's local bubble has an 'escape tunnel'
- Saturn and the moon put on a celestial show Sunday night. Here's how to see it
- Milky Way swirls over famous Easter Island statues in stunning photo
November 7
- Russia sends 53 satellites to orbit on record-breaking launch (video)
- Satellites capture havoc caused by Spanish floods (images)
- NOAA satellites watch Hurricane Rafael make landfall in Cuba (video)
- Teeny tardigrades can survive space and lethal radiation. Scientists may finally know how
- Moon RACER: Intuitive Machines takes lunar rover out for debut drive
- 'God of chaos' asteroid may be transformed by tremors and landslides during 2029 flyby of Earth, study finds
- Astronaut Suni Williams 'in good health' on the ISS, NASA says, refuting tabloid claims
- 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' Season 5 episode 4: Who is Doctor Migleemo and why is he so obsessed with food?
- Space stations are loud — that's why NASA is making a quiet fan
- NASA's X-59 'quiet' supersonic jet test fires engine for 1st time
- How comet Hale-Bopp can reveal the origins of life on Earth — and maybe beyond
- 'Beppo go home?' An astronaut monkey steals hearts in tear-jerking SNL skit
- SpaceX's Dragon is about to do something to the ISS it's never done before
- Venus' 'missing' giant impact craters may be hiding in plain sight
November 6
- SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites from California (video)
- Sun erupts with powerful X2.3 solar flare, triggers radio blackouts (video)
- 'Fastest-feeding' black hole of the early universe found! But does it break the laws of physics?
- 'What's Starlink?' Trump talks Elon Musk, Starship and SpaceX in election night victory speech (video)
- SpaceX targeting Nov. 18 for next Starship megarocket launch
- US military test-launches unarmed nuclear missile on election night (video)
- SpaceX launches 23 more Starlink satellites from Florida (video, photos)
- Go Centaur! Space Force stands up rocket stage at Los Angeles base
- 'Interstellar' gets 10th anniversary deluxe 4K UHD and Blu-ray collector's edition
- Recruiting the world’s first disabled astronaut doesn't mean space travel is inclusive – here’s how to change that
- Hera asteroid probe 'waves goodbye' at Earth and moon from 2.3 million miles away (image)
- China's space station experiments are back on Earth
- New NASA coronagraph will measure temperature, speed of solar wind from ISS
- NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft finds 'danger zones' around stars
- Supernova hides in new Hubble Telescope galaxy 'light show' image (photo)
- NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope sees 'knots' blasting from nearby black hole jets
November 5
- World's 1st wooden satellite arrives at ISS for key orbital test
- Satellite survives impact with object in space, takes selfie to prove it (photos)
- Astronomers spot unusually synchronized star formation in ancient galaxy for 1st time
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe flies by Venus before historic sun encounter
- Design an interstellar 'generation ship' to spend decades among the stars with Project Hyperion competition
- Netflix's 'The Man Who Loved UFOs' explores how flying saucer hoaxes go viral (review)
- Why can't active NASA astronauts endorse US presidential candidates?
- Matthew McConaughey unveils otherworldly aliens in upcoming sci-fi game 'Exodus' (videos)
- Satellites can now spot plastic trash on Earth's beaches from space (photo)
- Newfound dead star spins record-breaking 716 times a second, explodes with thermonuclear blasts
- 'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers
- Sharp 'lobster vision:' China's Einstein Probe space telescope already making discoveries during commissioning phase
- Save $300 on the HTC VIVE Pro 2 VR headset, the best high-resolution option
- Asteroid-mining company AstroForge gets 1st-ever FCC license for commercial deep-space mission
- SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrives at ISS on 31st resupply mission (video)
November 4
- India delays its 1st-ever Gaganyaan astronaut launch to 2026
- Space Force's mysterious X-37B begins 'aerobraking' to lower orbit. Here's how it works (video)
- How do you vote from space? NASA astronauts cast 2024 election ballots from ISS
- NASA's 15-year-old NEOWISE asteroid hunter meets fiery doom by burning up in Earth's atmosphere
- Jupiter's moons hide giant subsurface oceans − Europa Clipper is one of 2 missions on their way to see if these moons could support life
- 'Star Wars: Legacy of Vader' follows Kylo Ren between 'The Last Jedi' and 'Rise of Skywalker'
- Don't miss the Taurid meteor shower peak with colorful fireballs and shooting stars tonight
- Boost for Mars life? Red Planet's magnetic field may have lasted longer than thought
- SpaceX scrubs Starlink satellite launch due to apparent rocket helium leak
- SpaceX launches 3 tons of cargo on 31st ISS resupply flight for NASA (video)
- See the moon snuggle up to Venus after sunset tonight
- Astronomers urge FCC to halt satellite megaconstellation launches
- Rocket Lab launches mystery mission on company's 12th launch of 2024 (video)
- Japan launches military communications satellite on 4th flight of H3 rocket (video)
November 3
- Explore a long-lost Starfleet ghost ship in new 'Star Trek: Lower Decks' comic (exclusive)
- Everything we know about 'Tron: Ares'
- Chef Duff Goldman spins up moon-shaped cake for NASA 'Taste of Space'
- 'Cosmic inflation:' did the early cosmos balloon in size? A mirror universe going backwards in time may be a simpler explanation
- China's Shenzhou 18 astronauts return to Earth after 6 months in space (video)
November 2
- SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts, including Boeing Starliner crew, fly Dragon spacecraft to new ISS parking spot (video)
- Space isn’t all about the 'race' – rival superpowers must work together for a better future
- Every upcoming Star Wars game officially announced
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 135 — The Spacer Pipeline
- NASA astronaut captures city lights streaking below ISS in stunning new photos
- Black holes that form in 'reverse Big Bang replays' could account for dark energy
November 1
- 'Boo Deng' steals the show at NASA JPL's annual pumpkin carving contest (photos)
- China's Shenzhou 19 astronauts take the reins of Tiangong space station (video)
- 'Alien signal' sent from Mars decoded by father-daughter team
- Watch Jude Law lead lost kids across the galaxy in new 'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' trailer
- Hubble Telescope watches neutron stars collide and explode to create black hole and 'birth atoms'
- Satellites watch devastating floods in Spain from space (photos)
- X-class Halloween solar flare erupts from sun, causes radio blackouts (video)
- Can we solve the satellite air pollution problem? Here are 4 possible fixes
- NASA astronaut Suni Williams sends Happy Diwali wishes from ISS (video)
- 'Interstellar' fireballs likely came from within our solar system, study suggests
- Explore Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa in NASA virtual tour (photos)
- Perseverance rover watches 'googly eye' solar eclipse from Mars (video)
- November's new moon makes a close pass to Venus
- Icy moon of Uranus may have once hid watery secret, Voyager 2 archives reveal