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- January 25
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- On This Day in Space! Jan. 25, 2004: Opportunity rover lands on Mars
- What's next for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope after its nearly million-mile journey to destination
- Powerful, nearby black holes could help to explain universe's origins
- Tonga undersea volcano eruption released up to 18 megatons of energy
- Watch the James Webb Space Telescope's last days on Earth in this time-lapse video
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission: Live updates
- January 24
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- For scientists, relief and joy abound as James Webb Space Telescope completes monthlong journey
- SpaceX Dragon splashes down off Florida coast with nearly 5,000 pounds of science on board
- James Webb Space Telescope arrives at new home in space
- Best Buy's flash sale has great deals on these Star Wars Lego and The Mandalorian toys
- Pictures from space! Our image of the day
- Black holes: Scientists think they've spotted the mysterious birth of one
- Mars 'asteroid showers' have stayed steady over 600 million years
- Astronauts become archaeologists to document space station 'dig sites'
- Watch Perseverance Mars rover spit out a stuck rock after choking on sample
- The James Webb Space Telescope glides to its deep-space parking spot today! How to follow it online.
- A killer comet strikes Manhattan in new prank video for Netflix's 'Don't Look Up'
- 40 quintillion stellar-mass black holes are lurking in the universe, new study finds
- January 23
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- SpaceX Dragon cargo ship undocks from space station for trip back to Earth
- International Space Station: Live updates
- SpaceX Dragon cargo ship to depart space station today after weather delay. How to watch it live.
- Could the Earth ever stop spinning, and what would happen if it did?
- NASA upgrades its asteroid hazard software to use sunlight
- Will we ever know the true nature of 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar visitor?
- Earth inhales and exhales carbon in mesmerizing animation
- January 22
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- How satellites have revolutionized the study of volcanoes
- The top space stories of the week!
- Space photos: The most amazing images this week!
- The mystery deepens: Ghostly neutrinos and fast radio bursts don't come from the same place
- Paramount Plus unveils new 'Star Trek: Picard' trailer, 'Discovery' season 5, plus 'Strange New Worlds' premiere date
- January 21
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- Space Force satellite launch could create a luminous cloud in tonight's evening sky
- Atlas V rocket launches 2 surveillance satellites for US Space Force
- Hubble telescope spots a black hole fostering baby stars in a dwarf galaxy
- NASA catches sun sending powerful flare into space
- 2022 could be a turning point in the study of UFOs
- Researchers detect 1st merger between black holes with eccentric orbits
- Shattered 'alphabet soup' iceberg flushed a lot of fresh water into the ocean
- Do we live in a simulation? The problem with this mind-bending hypothesis.
- Ghostly glow in alien skies: 'Zodiacal light' possibly spotted on 3 exoplanets
- January 20
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- NASA's gamma-ray observatory is in safe mode after a possible wheel failure
- Bad weather delays SpaceX Dragon's departure from space station to Saturday
- Astronaut spots ash clouds from Tonga volcano eruption from space (photos)
- Historic Mars weather delay pushes Ingenuity helicopter's next flight to Sunday
- Axiom's 1st private crew launch to space station delayed to March
- Cosmosphere craft beer: Space museum set to launch 'Space Race' IPA
- NASA's InSight Mars lander awakens from 'safe mode' after Red Planet dust storm
- Radian Aerospace raises $27.5 million for new orbital space plane
- Nerf gun deals and discounts
- NASA space station officials weigh in on remaining in orbit until 2030
- Spaceflight makes the body kill red blood cells and it doesn't get better after landing
- 'Space archaeology' research on the ISS will help design better space habitats
- January 19
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- NASA wants your ideas to reuse trash and waste on a Mars mission
- James Webb Space Telescope marks deployment of all mirrors
- Cosmonauts on spacewalk ready new Russian docking port for future space station arrivals
- Moon's crust may have formed from 'slushy' magma ocean long ago
- China sends classified satellite into space during first launch of 2022
- 'The Book of Boba Fett' episode 3 offers colorful new additions to Tatooine culture
- SpaceX's Starlink satellites leave streaks in asteroid-hunting telescope's images
- NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission readies for 'wet dress rehearsal'
- The Mars rover Perseverance has pebbles stuck in its drill. NASA has a plan to fix it.
- Watch two Russian cosmonauts take a spacewalk outside the International Space Station today
- Massive asteroid safely zooms by Earth, a million miles away
- SpaceX launches 49 Starlink internet satellites, lands rocket at sea
- January 18
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- Here's how the James Webb Space Telescope is aligning its mirrors in deep space
- Lasting devastation from Tonga volcano eruption revealed in satellite images
- Possible sign of Mars life? Curiosity rover finds 'tantalizing' Red Planet organics
- What really makes a planet habitable? Our assumptions may be wrong
- Ash from Tonga volcano eruption reaches record altitude but climate cooling unlikely
- A huge asteroid will fly safely by Earth today. Here's how to watch it live.
- Astronomers propose building a neutrino telescope — out of the Pacific Ocean
- You can watch SpaceX launch more than four dozen Starlink internet satellites tonight. Here's how.
- Chilly, damp Mars may have hosted an ancient ocean
- HTC VR headsets are on sale in the UK until the end of January
- January 17
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- Striking satellite photo captures Mount Vesuvius peering through a hole in the clouds
- Launching with Blue Origin: Q&A with spaceflight veteran Dylan Taylor
- Gravitational waves play with fast spinning stars, study suggests
- Scorching alien planet takes seasons to an extreme
- Full Wolf Moon, the first full moon of 2022, rises tonight
- January 16
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- Huge Tonga underwater volcano eruption captured in stunning satellite video
- Climate scientist and Netflix 'Don't Look Up' director talk comet metaphors and global warming (exclusive)
- China builds 'artificial moon' for gravity experiment
- Strange and hidden Jupiter-size exoplanet spotted by astronomers and citizen scientists
- January 15
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- 4-foot tsunami hits Tonga after explosive eruption of underwater volcano
- Learn the backstory of Grudge the Cat with IDW's new 'Star Trek: Discovery' comic miniseries
- Brace yourself for a peek at Boom!'s new 'Dune' comic book 'A Whisper of Caladan Seas #1'
- Pentagon launches new UFO office. Not all believers are happy about it.
- Explosive underwater volcano eruption in Tonga spotted from space in satellite images
- January 14
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- Largest dark energy map could reveal the fate of the universe
- NASA leasing bill morphs into 'freedom to vote' legislation
- New head of Indian space agency's 'biggest challenge' will be human spaceflight
- January full moon 2022: The 'Wolf Moon' rises with winter constellations
- 3 newly discovered worlds risk doom orbiting too close to dying stars
- 'The Expanse' stars Cara Gee and Keon Alexander talk about getting into character (and Marcos' underwear) — Exclusive video
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket spotted from space before and after epic 105-satellite launch (images)
- 2021 saw record temperatures and deaths from natural disasters, NASA, NOAA reveal
- What will the James Webb Space Telescope look at first?
- Get set for 'Resident Alien' Season 2 with this sidesplitting new trailer
- Virgin Orbit sends 7 satellites to orbit in fourth mid-air launch
- January 13
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- Virgin Orbit launching 7 satellites today: Watch it live
- China's Shenzhou 13 astronauts manually fly cargo ship for emergency docking test
- Infamous Mars meteorite contains organic molecules, but they aren't proof of life
- Curvature of space-time measured using 'atomic fountain'
- Mosaic Flight: NASA's 100th flight director leads Mission Control
- The hunt is on for exomoons around alien planets and scientists may have just found one
- SpaceX launches 105 small satellites into orbit, nails rocket landing
- Watch live: SpaceX rocket carrying dozens of satellites in orbit
- Streams of stars orbiting the Milky Way shed light on galaxy’s dark matter
- Watch SpaceX launch dozens of satellites on its Transporter-3 mission today
- Powerful superflares discovered erupting from superdense stellar corpse
- 'Cow' supernova is brightest ever seen in X-ray observations
- Meet Relativity Space: the little 3D printing rocket company that could
- January 12
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- NASA getting SLS megarockets ready for crewed moon missions
- James Webb Space Telescope begins lining up its golden mirrors
- A 3,400-foot-wide asteroid will make a safe flyby of Earth next week
- NASA's InSight Mars lander hunkering down in Red Planet dust storm
- NASA may need more astronauts for space station, moon missions, report says
- Giant galactic bubble is driving star formation, new study finds
- New NASA chief scientist pledges a plan to renew agency's Earth satellite fleet
- China's Chang'e 5 lunar lander is first to find water on the moon up close
- The Milky Way's supermassive black hole is leaking gas
- 'Space Adventure' exhibition to bring 300 Apollo-era artifacts to Miami
- 'Mini' monster black hole discovered hiding in a dwarf galaxy
- Elon Musk unveils SpaceX launch and catch tower for Starship Mars rocket (video)
- January 11
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- 'The Book of Boba Fett' episode 2 kicks the live-action show up a gear and then some
- Hunting galaxies far far away: Here's how anyone can explore the universe
- Save 30% on 'Clue: Star Wars' edition on Amazon
- Weird 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet is shaped like a football
- The sun used to have rings like Saturn
- A 'rogue asteroid field' almost delays the Valoria 3 analog Mars mission — Commander's Report: sol 2
- NASA's newly launched X-ray space telescope is ready to start observing the cosmos
- Powerful European Earth-observation satellite suffers anomaly in orbit
- Supermassive black hole gobbled up a star in the 1980s, and high schoolers helped discover it
- Perseverance rover chokes on Mars pebbles while collecting 6th rock sample
- China's $1 trillion 'artificial sun' fusion reactor just got five times hotter than the sun
- Drone discount: Save $52 on the Holy Stone HS720 on Amazon
- Moon 'mystery hut' is just a rabbit-shaped rock, Chinese rover finds
- Satellites reveal record high methane concentrations despite reduction pledges
- January 10
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- Stars might be forming much faster than expected, new study suggests
- Juno solves mystery of what drives Jupiter's polar cyclones
- James Webb Space Telescope should have fuel for about 20 years of science
- Physicists crack unsolvable three-body problem using drunkard's walk
- Yes, there is really 'diamond rain' on Uranus and Neptune
- NASA's new astronaut candidates report to Houston to begin training
- January 9
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- On China's new space station, a robotic arm test paves way for future construction
- The James Webb Space Telescope is fully deployed. So what's next for the biggest observatory off Earth?
- 'Chestbursters' and the dark calling of the lunar underground — Commander's report: lunar day 14
- 'Fallout' series from Amazon appoints showrunners, Jonathan Nolan to direct premiere
- January 8
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- 'We're on an incredible high': James Webb Space Telescope scientists over the moon as observatory unfolds
- Watch the James Webb Space Telescope soar through space in this livestream Saturday
- James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest ever built, fully unfolds giant mirror to gaze at the cosmos
- Weird structures near Earth's core may be scars from a primordial interplanetary collision
- Kazakhstan unrest not affecting Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport, Russia says
- The Selene V crew hit the moonwalk jackpot — Commander's report: lunar day 10
- Google Doodle celebrates the life of cosmologist Stephen Hawking for his 80th birthday
- NASA launches sounding rocket to study space X-rays
- January 7
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- Look up to spot the tricky planet Mercury at its 'greatest elongation' from the sun tonight
- Virgin Orbit lands in Times Square NYC to ring NASDAQ bell
- James Webb Space Telescope has unfolded 1st wing of massive golden mirror
- Astronomers discover 'Maggie,' a giant atomic cloud stretching across the Milky Way
- 1 billion seconds in space! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope surpasses major milestone
- Matter and antimatter respond to gravity in the same way, study finds
- Death star: In cosmic first, scientists observe red supergiant just before it explodes
- January 6
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- SpaceX lofts 49 Starlink internet satellites to orbit in 1st launch of 2022
- The solar system belongs to us all, not just Jeff Bezos
- NASA's TESS exoplanet mission reveals mystery of strange signals from dusty object
- North Korea tests another new hypersonic weapon: reports
- New trailer for 'Moonfall' promises a disaster movie on a scale like no other, but how accurate is the physics?
- SpaceX will launch 49 Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket today. Watch it live!
- Why doesn't the James Webb Space Telescope have any cameras onboard?
- James Webb Space Telescope deploys radiator to keep cool
- NFT-backed vault on space station to showcase prized goods for sale
- Does every star have planets?
- This amazing HD video is the last view we'll ever have of the James Webb Space Telescope
- The Milky Way's outer reaches may have lumpy, choppy arms
- Astronaut snaps spectacular shot of crescent moon glowing over stunning sunset
- January 5
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- 'The Book of Boba Fett' episode 1 reveals just how he escaped the Sarlacc pit and more
- Big hunk of failed Russian rocket crashes to Earth as space junk
- Satellite images show epic snowstorm that shut down part of Interstate 95
- James Webb Space Telescope nails secondary mirror deployment
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity gearing up for 19th Red Planet flight on Friday
- 'Orion's Fireplace': Flame Nebula is ablaze with color in stunning new image
- Let the space games begin! Ideas for off-Earth sports move to center court
- 'Alexa, take me to the moon': Amazon, Cisco Webex to fly on Artemis 1
- This 'UFO' rover could hover on the moon and asteroids one day
- Perseid meteor shower 2022: When, where & how to see it
- China livestreams New Year's view from new space station
- Comet Leonard puts on a final, spectacular display with ion tail in solar wind
- Scientists create never-before-seen isotope of magnesium
- January 4
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- Exploding meteor 'booms' over Pennsylvania on New Year's Day
- With James Webb Space Telescope's huge sunshield in place, focus shifts to big mirrors
- James Webb Space Telescope completes tricky sunshield deployment
- Last astronauts to visit Hubble Space Telescope sign coins for AMF fundraiser
- 'Space Force' Season 2 will land on Netflix in February
- Happy perihelion 2022! Earth reaches its closest point to the sun for the year
- 'Cosmic monster' star spits energy with the force of a billion suns
- Some black holes are anything but black – and we've found more than 75,000 of the brightest ones
- Watch 'coronal streamers' streak off the sun in close-up video from Parker Solar Probe
- January 3
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- Things are getting tense for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, literally
- Comet Leonard makes its closest approach to the sun today, one year after its discovery
- Assimilate this shiny new Borg Queen Replica Skull from 'Star Trek: First Contact'
- China's Mars orbiter snaps amazing selfies above Red Planet
- We may finally be able to test one of Stephen Hawking's most far-out ideas
- Toxic gas released by ancient microbes may have worsened Earth's largest mass extinction
- Tour Mars' Jezero Crater with this gorgeous Perseverance rover mosaic (video)
- January 2
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- NASA delays tightening James Webb Space Telescope sunshield to study power system
- Titan Comics' new 'Cowboy Bebop' miniseries sends Spike and the gang after a lucky vest
- 'Star Trek: Klingons' will reveal the legend of Kahless in new IDW comic
- Why can't we put a space station on the moon?
- The Quadrantid meteor shower of 2022 peaks today!
- Top sci-fi movies and TV shows to watch on Amazon Prime in January
- James Webb telescope: How it could uncover some of the universe's best-kept secrets
- January 1
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- James Webb Space Telescope team takes break before tightening up vital sunshield
- Best night sky events of January 2022 (stargazing maps)
- The best sci-fi movies and TV shows to stream on Netflix in January
- The best night sky events to see in 2022
- Astronauts ring in New Year aboard space station to welcome 2022
- James Webb Space Telescope unfurls massive sunshield in major deployment milestone
