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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (photos)

By Mike Wall last updated

SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink satellites to orbit early Friday (Aug. 2), continuing the company's bounceback from a July 11 failure.

Launches & Spacecraft
four people in white spacesuits with the visors up pose and smile in front of a white cone-shaped spacecraft

SpaceX to resume astronaut launches on Aug. 18 with Crew-9 mission to ISS

By Brett Tingley published

The ninth crew rotation for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off on Aug. 18 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Private Spaceflight
Six serious-looking adventurers with an explosion in the background.

Never played the Borderlands games? Here's what you need to know ahead of the Borderlands movie

By Fran Ruiz published

Don't know your Claptrap from your Handsome Jack? Here's everything you need to know about the Borderlands video games before seeing the movie.

Entertainment
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Could galaxy cluster collisions be used as dark matter detectors?

By Robert Lea published

Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider have failed to turn up potential dark matter candidates, but could galaxy cluster smashes be used as cosmic dark matter colliders?

The Universe
Concentric purple cricles filled with glowing points of light

'Cosmic dawn:' NASA's Roman Space Telescope will get baby pictures of our universe

By Robert Lea published

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will look all the way back to cosmic dawn 400 million years after the Big Bang to discover how the universe fundamentally changed at this crucial point in its history.

The Universe
Valya Harkonnen sitting on a throne in Dune: Prophecy. She is wearing a black dress and a black veil.

Upcoming sci-fi TV shows for 2024 & beyond

By Grace Dean last updated

2024 brings a new roster of superb sci-fi TV shows to binge across all the streaming platforms. What's coming up next? Here's what we know.

Space Movies & Shows
animation showing a view of the united states from space, with yellow and orange plumes emanating from various regions of the nation

This mesmerizing NASA animation shows how carbon dioxide moves through Earth's atmosphere (video)

By Stefanie Waldek published

A high-resolution visualization from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio shows global carbon dioxide emissions from January to March 2020.

Climate Change
(Left) an illustration of the discovery of oxygen on August 1, 1774

On this day in space! August 1, 1774: Oxygen is discovered!

By Hanneke Weitering published

On August 1, 1774, natural philosopher Joseph Priestley was working with gases when he discovered oxygen.

Space Shuttle
a twisted ladder of dna against a backdrop of space

If we want to settle on other planets, we’ll have to use genome editing to alter human DNA

By Sam McKee published

It sounds like science fiction, but many scientists believe editing the human genome is key to our advancement across the solar system.

Human Spaceflight
In the forground a irregular light blue sphere trailed by a tail of white smoke there is ringed planet behind it

Saturn threw a comet out of the solar system at 6,700 mph. Here's how

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers have discovered that Saturn has thrown a newly found comet on its way out of the solar system. Comet A117uUD is expected to go interstellar at 6,700 mph.

Solar System
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