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The first Lunar Landing Research Vehicle is pictured during a test flight at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California.

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On this day in space! Oct. 31, 2015: Creepy skull-shaped Halloween asteroid flies by Earth, NASA names it the ‘Great Pumpkin’

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A simulation of the night sky showing the Moon close to Mars, Jupiter and the bright star Regulus in the eastern sky.

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The moon, Mars, and Jupiter shine in the heart of the Lion overnight on Nov. 1-2

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Betelgeuse is haunted by a cosmic poltergeist tormenting the doomed star’s atmosphere

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Halloween night sky 2026 — Saturn, shooting stars and a space station await US stargazers

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The Sky Today on Saturday, October 31: Glimpse the ghostly Phantom Galaxy

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Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. October 30: Mars approaches...

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base just after midnight ET on Oct. 31, 2026.

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Happy Halloween! SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video)

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Aristic rendering of Hera approaching Dimorphos. (Credit: ESA-Science Office)

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Hera Probe Sees Asteroid Pair Separately for First Time

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Planetary defense is a growing concern among the scientific community, as efforts have been made to design...

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two starship captains from a sci-fi movie

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The world mourns the passing of ‘Star Trek’s’ Patrick Stewart with a galaxy of tearful tributes

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The black hole at the centre of M87. It has a measured spin, so theoretically, if conditions were right, it could break apart, according to a new study. Credit : Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

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What Could Split a Black Hole in Two?

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We all know that black holes can collide. It has happened since black holes began to form,...

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A rendering of the inner Solar System showing the asteroids discovered by Rubin in light teal. Known asteroids are dark blue. Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NSF NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/R/NASA/Goddard/ESA/Gaia/DPAC

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Queen’s University Belfast Students Find Neptune’s Elusive Trojan Asteroids

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An international team led by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast has made a discovery that has eluded...

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a man in shorts and a black t shirt works with a small black suitcase, seen through a circular doorway

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An aquanaut comes home: Returning to Earth from an undersea ‘space station’

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India launches next-gen navigation satellite to orbit (video)

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Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust

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Teghaza 001 was acquired through the desert meteorite trade, where hunters comb the Sahara for dark stones...

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This image shows a cut section of Teg001, with some of its features and contents labelled. Pigeonite (PgT) is particularly relevant, because it hosts fluid-altered Magnesium. "The Mg-rich interiors of pigeonite have been heavily altered by reactions with a fluid phase," the authors write. Image Credit: Yang Liu et al., A Martian meteorite that formed ≳4.1 billion years ago samples Mars’ early crust and mantle. Science0,eadz5646DOI:10.1126/science.adz5646

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This Ancient Meteorite Hints at Mars’ Warm, Wet Past

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Mars is the subject of an ongoing, decades-long effort to understand its past. Its potential ancient habitability...

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Screenshot from the 2001 space horror movie "Jason X" showing Kane Hodder as Cyborg Jason Voorhees.

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5 horror franchises that went to space… and one that absolutely should have but didn’t

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ESI supplying solar array components to missile defense programs

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Oct. 30, 2026 – ESI Motion Inc. is proud to announce that it is supplying the Solar...

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five men in white button-down shirts lay on the desert sand next to sandbags and wires held up on pylons

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The rocket scientist who summoned demons: The true horror story of Jack Parsons

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This artist's illustration shows two jets from a GRB emitted in opposite directions. The jets lose energy and fade into longer wavelengths as they travel through the surrounding medium. Image Credit: By NASA/Swift/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith and John Jones - http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/features/news/10sep08.html [1]Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by TheDJ using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8807284

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This Gamma-Ray Burst Wasn’t Dim, It Was Just Misunderstood

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Every photon that reaches us tells us something about the Universe. Most of them come from the...

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Photo of the night sky showing the open cluster Hyades and giant star Aldebaran in the constellation of Taurus, with smaller open cluster NGC 1647 at left.

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The Taurid meteor shower isn’t much to look at. That’s why I love it

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‘Star Trek’s’ William Shatner and George Takei honor the death of Walter Koenig

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