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- September 4
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- Trekkies honor 'Star Trek's' 60th birthday with fan events, special screenings, and a world record Vulcan salute
- Venus is becoming a thinner crescent — and that's when it finally starts making sense
- Stars forge and deliver the elements that make up your body — and scientists may finally know how
- Hubble Telescope sees spectacular 'superbubble' | Space photo of the day for Sept. 4, 2026
- On this day in space! Sept. 4, 1962: NASA's Mariner 2 spacecrafts performs the 1st-ever maneuver in deep space so it could reach Venus
- We played 'Exodus', a sci-fi RPG that should please 'Mass Effect' fans, even if you can't romance the talking octopus
- How did the infant sun form? Scientists get surprising new insights from 4.6-billion-year-old space dust
- Scientists watch a comet being born 3 billion miles away
- September 3
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- 'Alien: Isolation 2': Facing a ruthless and evolved Xenomorph in our Gamescom hands-on preview
- 2 spacecraft will soon reach Mercury after 8 years in space. Here's what BepiColombo can do
- 'Strange New Worlds'' latest episode is a soap opera spoof, but hasn't 'Star Trek' always been a soap opera in space?
- 'A new mission starting today': 8 years after launch, BepiColombo begins Mercury arrival
- Comet McNaught put on a surprise show this summer: Here's how to spot it before it fades
- Mesmerizing plasma loops on the sun | Space photo of the day for Sept. 3, 2026
- On this day in space! Sept. 3, 2006: Europe's SMART-1 spacecraft crashes into the moon in lunar death dive
- India sends Earth-imaging satellite toward geosynchronous orbit in milestone launch (video)
- Rocket issues delay 1st-ever private mission to Venus: 'We are awaiting Neutron readiness'
- September 2
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- Astronomers discover mysterious 10-sided cloud structure at Saturn's south pole
- China's private, reusable Pallas-1 rocket aces debut launch (video)
- This was always the way: 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' is finally on Disney+
- 2 spacecraft headed to Mercury are about to begin their long-awaited arrival for Europe and Japan — watch it live today
- Blue Origin wins $700 million contract to build NASA's next Mars orbiter
- 'Alien Isolation 2' creative director talks upping the scare factor for the sequel (interview)
- Supermassive black holes 'too big' for the early universe may not be so massive after all
- Falcon Heavy brings the heat | Space photo of the day for Sept. 2, 2026
- On this day in space! Sept. 2, 2016: Rosetta spacecraft finds long-lost Philae lander on Comet 67P after 2-year search
- Scientists may have detected the 1st direct evidence of dark matter
- A bright space station will soar over the US this week — and it's not the ISS. Here's how to see it
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites to orbit on its 35th flight
- Don't miss out on VisionQuest — stream the latest Marvel series from anywhere using this Proton VPN deal, now up to $168 off
- The moon might be hiding a history of ancient supernova explosions
- September 1
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- Two astronauts replace ISS camera and docking aid on 6th-ever all-female spacewalk (video)
- Scientists trace 7 stages of a meteorite's life, from hurtling space rock to Earth's surface
- Nonprofit wants to launch 80,000-year mission to Alpha Centauri in 2029 (video)
- The 12 best sci-fi movies of the 2000s
- On this day in space! Sept. 1, 1979: NASA's Pioneer 11 probe becomes 1st spacecraft to visit Saturn
- Why do black hole flares die out? It may be down to how stars spin
- NASA's Roman Space Telescope is just one of a few missions named after real-life women
- 5 planets will light up the September sky — here's how to see them
- Repairing the ISS 250 miles above Earth | Space photo of the day for Sept. 1, 2026
- 'Orbitals' is a co-op sci-fi adventure that recaptures the magic of Saturday morning cartoons
- Watch 2 astronauts take 6th-ever all-female spacewalk today