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Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui snapped this photo from the International Space Station's Kibo module. He posted it on X on Oct. 14, 2025. (Image credit: JAXA/Kimiya Yui) Science and maintenance work continued this week aboard the International Space Station (ISS), but updates regarding those activities are still all but halted…

Pictures of Earth from outer space often show the planet as a gaudy quilt. Shimmering aquamarine water covers more than 70 percent of its surface and those hues often seem to signify life against the vast darkness of the universe. But new research analyzing satellite images of the planet over…

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When NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe back in 1977, the initial objective was to gather information about our solar system — specifically, the region beyond the asteroid belt (between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter). After more than four decades in the cosmos, Voyager 1 and its sister probe,…

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A squat and brawny Chinese rocket just aced its second-ever liftoff. The Chinese company Orienspace's Gravity-1 rocket launches for the second time ever, lifting off from a ship on Oct. 10, 2025. (Image credit: CCTV) The 100-foot-tall (30-meter-tall) Gravity-1 consists of three stages and four strap-on boosters, all of which…

Vast Space's Haven-1 space station, which is scheduled to launch in 2026. The company posted this photo to X on Oct. 10, 2025. (Image credit: Vast Space) Vast is moving into the final stages of building its Haven-1 private space station, readying for launch in 2026, in a move that…

MAXSHOT.PL/Shutterstock An affordable and feature-packed USB hub can feel like a lifesaver when your laptop or desktop starts running out of ports, as it lets you plug in everything, from external drives to keyboards and webcams, all through a single device. However, you're not imagining things if you've used a USB…

Europe's next planet-hunting spacecraft just spread its "wings" in preparation for launch. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Plato exoplanet hunter undergoes testing at ESA's Test Center in the Netherlands. (Image credit: ESA) The 4-billion-Euro ($4.62-billion USD) mission is being put through its paces in a Netherlands clean room, after engineers…

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