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US Space Force's secretive X-37B space plane will test quantum alternative to GPS navigation

The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane will test a potential alternative to GPS that makes use of quantum science as a tool for navigation: a quantum inertial sensor.

These Rare Star Systems Are A New Tool To Understand Brown Dwarfs

There are things astrophysicists know and things they don't know about brown dwarfs. They know that as they were forming and accreting mass, they failed to gain enough mass to trigger hydrogen fusion and become stars. But they're too massive to be gas giant planets like Jupiter because they do fuse some deuterium. So brown dwarfs are stuck in an astrophysical no-man's-land between star and planet. They're often referred to as 'failed stars'.

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SpaceX to Launch Secret X-37B Space Plane Thursday

The U.S. Department of Defense’s mini-shuttle heads to orbit once again Thursday night.

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Roman's High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey Will Find Tens of Thousands of Supernovae

In May 2027, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch to space. Appropriately named after the "Mother of Hubble," the telescope will use its 2.4-meter (7.9 ft) wide field of view primary mirror and advanced instruments to investigate the deeper mysteries of the cosmos. Roman will spend 75% of its observing time over its five-year primary mission conducting three core community surveys selected by the scientific community. Among them, Roman will conduct a High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey (HLTDS) to detect tens of thousands of type Ia supernovae.

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This Chappell Roan song boosted interest in a Canadian dark sky preserve by 1,800%

Chappell Roan mentioned Canada's Saskatchewan just days before Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park hosts a "star party" festival in its dark-sky park.

New tactical roguelite game 'Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes' sees you escape the Cylons with a full fleet of spaceships (video)

Battlestar Galactica meets FTL in this just-announced "story-rich tactical roguelite" from the makers of Crying Suns.

Russia launches mice, microbes and more on monthlong mission to Earth orbit (video)

Russia launched its Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite today (Aug. 20), sending 75 mice, 1,000 fruit flies and other organisms to orbit to learn more about the health effects of spaceflight.

Watch a bright fireball explode above Japan, turning night to day (video)

A fireball exploded into life in the skies above Japan on Aug. 19, briefly turning night to day before fragmenting close to the horizon.

Live coverage: SpaceX to launch X-37B military spaceplane on Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center

The X-37B on the runway at Vandenberg Space Force Base following its landing there on March 7, 2025. Image: U.S. Space Force.

Update Aug. 20, 12:56 p.m. EDT: Added additional information from the 45th Weather Squadron.

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The Mystery of Leslie Peltier's "Two Tiny Diamonds"

How a determined amateur astronomer may have hit on the identity of a Cepheid variable double star described by a beloved author.

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Firefly Aerospace explores launching its Alpha rocket from Japan

Firefly Aerospace launches its sixth Alpha rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on April 29, 2025. Image: Trevor Mahlmann / Firefly Aerospace

Firefly Aerospace may soon bring its Alpha rockets to the coast of Japan.

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Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy says it's time for the agency to focus on the moon and Mars, not the "smorgasbord of priorities," like climate science, the agency has been directing its resources.

Pragmata rethinks sci-fi shooter combat, and it owes a lot to Snake (preview)

After five years, Pragmata could have been unambitious, but instead, it's a fascinating and innovative sci-fi game with heaps of potential.

South Korea's K-RadCube radiation satellite will hitch a ride on NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission

South Korea's K-RadCube satellite has arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead of its launch toward the moon on the Artemis 2 mission next year.

Astronauts get stuffy noses in space because of microgravity, scientists find

Scientists are calling attention to an extremely common health problem that's been making astronauts uncomfortable: sinus issues.

Semiconductor wafer on ISS goes under the microscope | Space photo of the day for Aug. 20, 2025

This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown crystals.

Iberian wildfires seen from space

Southern Europe is once again in the grip of extreme summer heat. Soaring temperatures and bone-dry land have fuelled widespread wildfires, with the Iberian Peninsula among the regions hardest hit. Flames continue to sweep across parched landscapes, as these images show.

Using Video Game Techniques To Optimze Solar Sails

Sometimes inspiration can strike from the most unexpected places. It can result in a cross-pollination between ideas commonly used in one field but applied to a completely different one. That might have been the case with a recent paper on lightsail design from researchers at the University of Nottingham that used techniques typically used in video games to develop a new and improved structure of a lightsail.

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'Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 4' revealed, with a new developer promising a return to 'mass-battle, base-building roots' (video)

Warhammer 40K's most iconic real-time strategy series is back next year and under new leadership.

Nocs Provisions Zero Tube 10x25 waterproof monocular review

Your new favorite lightweight spotting companion — the Noca Provisions Zero Tube.

SpaceX partners with astronomers to protect radio astronomy from satellite interference

An automated system co-developed by SpaceX prevents disruption to radio astronomical observations caused by megaconstellations in low Earth orbit.


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