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Scientists discover 53 powerful quasars shooting out jets up to 50 times wider than our Milky Way
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"The sizes of these radio jets are not comparable to our solar system or even our galaxy."
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1st European to fly to the moon will be German
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"No European has ever seen that before."
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'Marvel Cosmic Invasion' is an old-fashioned space adventure up featuring one of the greatest Marvel villains of all time (review)
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Tribute Games' take on Marvel comics focuses on the universe's more overlooked cosmic elements and packs a delightfully off-beat roster of heroes.
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NASA exoplanet-hunting spacecraft hears a red giant star 'singing' to its partner black hole
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"These vibrations told us something unexpected about this star's history."
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Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare, knocking out radio signals across Australia
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A powerful X1.9 solar flare from new sunspot AR4299 triggered strong radio blackouts, as giant sunspot AR4294 rotates into view with more activity likely.
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Watch live! Vega-C rocket to launch advanced Earth-observation satellite for South Korea
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Europe could get 42 more days of summer by the year 2100 due to climate change
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Unfortunately, endless summer isn't such a good thing for our planet.
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Electric discovery on Mars! Scientists find tiny lightning bolts coming from Red Planet dust clouds
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Could these bolts destroy evidence of ancient Red Planet life?
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SpaceX blasts off into December with early morning Starlink launch from Florida (video)
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Liftoff occurred at 2:44 a.m. EST on Monday (Dec. 1).
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Watch Europe's Vega C rocket launch an advanced Korean Earth-observation satellite to orbit today
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Liftoff of the KOMPSAT-7 spacecraft is scheduled for 12:21 p.m. ET today (Dec. 1).
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James Webb Space Telescope spies mysterious high-energy radiation in star nursery
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"Young stars are not capable of being a source of radiation. So we should not expect it."
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Earth's newfound 'episodic-squishy lid' may guide our search for habitable worlds
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A newly discovered tectonic "regime" may explain why Earth has active plates while Venus remains stagnant.
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Have gravitational waves provided the first hint of primordial black holes born during the Big Bang?
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"If this turns out to be real, then it’s enormous."
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How will the universe end?
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Depending on how you look at it, the universe might not have an "end," after all.
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Buzz Lightyear at 30: How sci-fi's most famous flying toy took us to infinity… and beyond
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In 1995, "Toy Story" introduced one of sci-fi's greatest heroes. Thirty years on, Buzz Lightyear is still the pride of Star Command
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Watch live as near-Earth asteroid Eros buzzes the Andromeda Galaxy on Nov. 30 (video)
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Eros will pass within 2 degrees of the Andromeda Galaxy's core on Nov. 30.
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Best Disney sci-fi movies (that aren't Star Wars, Marvel, or Pixar)
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Disney's long history contains a bunch of sci-fi movies worth watching that don't belong to Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, or other large franchises.
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Saturn shines with the waxing moon at sunset on Nov. 29
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The moon meets Saturn and Neptune in the southeastern sky tonight.
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Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here's why
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Intuitively, we know what time is, but try to explain it, and we end up tying our minds in knots.
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Satellites capture aftermath of Ethiopian volcano's 1st eruption in recorded history (images)
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No deaths were reported from the eruption of Hayli Gubbi in Northern Ethiopia.
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