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Lego Thanos-snapped this awesome Avengers set away, but Amazon has blipped it back for Prime Day

$37 off for Prime Day, this Lego Avengers set is an action-packed reminder of when the MCU was good. But you'll have to move fast if you want to claim it!

Europe's first deep-space optical communication link

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away, using two optical grounds stations developed for this purpose in Greece.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy picked as Interim NASA Administrator

Acting NASA Associate Administrator Vanessa Wyche, left, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro, right, react as they watch the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft splash down with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, Nick Hague, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov, Tuesday, March 18, 2025, from the Space Operations Center at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy will now also oversee NASA as its newest interim administrator. The new leadership announcement came in a late-night post by President Donal Trump on his social media site, Truth Social.

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My go-to pair of budget binoculars are now even cheaper this Prime Day

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HKU astrobiologist joins national effort to map out China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission

Was there once life on Mars? That question has been the subject of ongoing exploration and research for more than half a century, and is closely tied to questions about how and when life emerged on Earth. At present, there are six active missions exploring the Red Planet for possible evidence of past life (and possibly present), including NASA's Perseverance rover, the Curiosity rover, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the UAE's Hope orbiter, the ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), and China's Tianwen-1 orbiter and rover. In the near future, they will be joined by Tianwen-3, a sample-return mission consisting of two spacecraft.

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This Planet Makes Its Star Flare and the Planet Suffers Because Of It

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are close to the star, these flares could sterilize any planets and render them totally uninhabitable. But red dwarfs aren't the only stars that flare; most do, including our Sun.

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NASA's Future Telescope Could Solve the Mystery of Life's Origins

The question of how life began has captivated humanity for millennia. Now, a team of scientists are preparing to use NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) to test different theories about life's origins by studying planets beyond our Solar System.

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Giant Liquid Mirrors Could Revolutionise the Hunt for Habitable Worlds

Imagine a space telescope with a mirror stretching 50 meters across! That’s larger than the width of a UK soccer field and nearly eight times wider than the James Webb Space Telescope. Now imagine that this enormous mirror is made not of precisely manufactured glass segments, but of liquid floating in space. This might sound like science fiction but it's the cutting edge concept behind the Fluidic Telescope (FLUTE), a joint NASA-Technion project that could revolutionise how we explore the universe.

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How Your Flight Home Could Be Broadcasting Earth's Location to Aliens.

Every time you take off from Heathrow, land at JFK, or pass through any major airport, you might be inadvertently announcing humanity's existence to alien civilizations up to 200 light years away. New research reveals that the radar systems keeping our skies safe are simultaneously broadcasting powerful signals deep into space, signals that could serve as cosmic adverts of our very existence.

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Deflecting Asteroids Isn't Simple According to New Data from DART

We know that there are many asteroids in the Solar System that pose a potential threat. We're getting better at detecting them, and every few months we learn of another one on a potential course to strike Earth. It's obviously in our best self-preservation interest to detect these objects and to figure out how to protect the planet from them. That's what led to NASA's DART (Double-Asteroid Redirection Test).

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Private Ax-4 astronauts aboard ISS are filling their time with science, views of Earth and pierogis (video)

As the Axiom-4 mission approaches its two-week mark before returning to Earth, the private space mission crew discusses science and pierogis.

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Scientists discover ice in space isn't like water on Earth after all

Scientists had assumed that the ice in space was purely amorphous, but new experiments show it can have a partly crystalline structure similar to ice on Earth.

Space Debris

What Is Space Debris?

Space debris (also called “space junk” or “orbital debris”) refers to non-functional, human-made objects in Earth’s orbit. This includes:

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NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space

"You can think of it as a cosmic pool game. We might miss the pocket if we don't consider all the variables."

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Finding PBHs Using The LSST Will Be A Statistical Challenge

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy’s most long-awaited surveys begins. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is set to start on November 5th, and will scan the sky of billions of stars for at least ten years. One of the most important things it hopes to find is evidence (or lack thereof) of primordial black holes (PBHs), one of the primary candidates for dark matter. A new paper from researchers at Durham University and the University of New Mexico looks at the difficulties the LSST will have in finding those enigmatic objects, especially the statistical challenges, and how they might be overcome.

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Finding An Ocean On An Exoplanet Would Be Huge and the Habitable Worlds Observatory Could Do It

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When scientists find exoplanets around distant stars, a primary consideration is if they're in the stars' habitable zones where liquid water could persist on the planet's surface. The search for atmospheric biosignatures takes a backseat to the search for water.

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