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Astronaut puts his mad video game skills to the test | On the International Space Station Aug. 25-29, 2025
"This demo brought me right back, blending elements of real-time strategy, RPGs and first-person play into something very real."
"A sky-watching experience that will move your soul" — the best binoculars for magnification have now also hit the best price of the year in this Labor Day deal
Deals The Celestron SkyMaster binoculars come highly recommended by our experts, and with a saving of over $116, now is the time to spot stars and galaxies for less.
56 million years ago, Earth underwent rapid global warming. Here’s what it did to pollinators
Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change?
Galactic cannonballs: The mystery of hypervelocity white dwarfs may just have been solved
Astronomers may have solved the mystery of how hypervelocity white dwarfs rocket out of the Milky Way at breakneck speeds.
On this day in space! Aug. 29, 1965: Gemini 5 breaks spaceflight duration record
On Aug. 28, 1993, NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Ida on its way to Jupiter.
Making babies beyond Earth? Spaceflight may not hinder sperm production, mouse study suggests
As humans expand into space, how we'll continue to expand the species remains an important question.
It's not easy being green (-blooded). The latest 'Strange New Worlds' shows it's harder than you'd think to play a Vulcan
There's more to being a Vulcan than prosthetic ears and playing it straight.
NASA puts asteroid Bennu under the microscope | Space photo of the day for Aug. 29, 2025
The near-Earth asteroid's microscopic surface tells a detailed story.
