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- February 9
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- What happened at the Arecibo Observatory? New inquiry launched into iconic telescope's collapse.
- What is the temperature of Uranus?
- NASA asteroid detector 'looks up' to scan entire sky every 24 hours
- Pictures from space! Our image of the day
- On This Day in Space! Feb. 9, 1913: Great meteor procession of 1913
- SpaceX is stacking its giant Starship ahead of Elon Musk's big update this week
- Jupiter's auroras arise from a magnetic 'tug-of-war' with volcanic eruptions on its moon Io
- UAE's Hope spacecraft marks 1 year in orbit around Mars
- Comet Hale-Bopp: Facts about the bright and tragic comet
- SpaceX says a geomagnetic storm just doomed 40 Starlink internet satellites
- What happens at the center of a black hole?
- Space calendar 2022: Rocket launches, sky events, missions & more!
- February 8
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- When is the midpoint of winter?
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission: Live updates
- Comet impact may have triggered decline of Ohio's Hopewell people 1,600 years ago
- Paint it black: behind the James Webb Space Telescope's signature color
- Mars rover Perseverance sets distance record on the Red Planet
- Mars helicopter Ingenuity aces 19th flight after historic Red Planet weather delay
- NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build rocket to carry Mars samples back to Earth
- Rugged Mars has taken big bites out of the Curiosity rover's wheels (photos)
- You can still see the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster on a collision course with the moon in a live webcast today
- A rogue rocket is on course to crash into the moon. It won't be the first.
- The 'morning star' Venus returns to the dawn sky this month
- India to attempt its next moon landing with Chandrayaan 3 launch in August
- Russia wants to speed up space station cargo deliveries with shorter, one-orbit flights
- February 7
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- What is the biggest thing in the universe?
- SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage breaks up in Earth's atmosphere, 5 years after launch
- SpaceX rocket stage on a collision course with the moon captured in telescope images
- Astra rocket aborts 1st Florida launch attempt at last second (video)
- The Big Bang: What really happened at our universe's birth?
- Olay erects statue of rocket engineer Mary Golda Ross to promote STEM equity
- Elon Musk giving update on SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket Thursday
- Farewell, Jupiter! The gas giant will disappear from the evening sky this month
- SCRUB: Astra to launch its 1st rocket flight from Florida today. Here's how to watch it live
- This SpaceX video of a Falcon 9 rocket stage separation during launch is just amazing
- Asteroid sharing Earth's orbit discovered — could it help future space missions?
- 25 myths about space
- Strange twin asteroids, the youngest ever seen, likely broke apart just 300 years ago
- Watch live: Astra attempting 1st Rocket launch from Florida
- Greenland lost enough ice in last 2 decades to cover entire US in 1.5 feet of water
- International Astronomical Union launches new center to fight satellite megaconstellation threat
- Rogue black hole spotted on its own for the first time
- February 6
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- How does terraforming work in the Alien universe?
- Watch SpaceX launch a US spy satellite and land a rocket in this mesmerizing drone video
- US Space Force's 'Orbital Prime' project aims to attack space debris by recycling or removing junk
- Ancient evils arise in IDW's new 'Transformers: War's End' comic book miniseries
- 'John Carter of Mars' blasts back to Barsoom in new comic series from Dynamite
- Titan Books celebrates vintage 'Flash Gordon' comic strips in a deluxe new collection
- Scientists discover lost range of 'supermountains' three times longer than the Himalayas
- Lightning bolt breaks record for longest ever recorded
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is cooling down for its next trick: Observing the universe
- February 5
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- Astra scrubs 1st Florida launch attempt due to faulty 'range asset'
- Could the moon ever be pushed from orbit like in 'Moonfall'?
- The best sci-fi movies and TV shows to stream on Netflix in February
- Top sci-fi movies and TV shows to watch on Amazon Prime in February
- Why Mars helicopters like Ingenuity could glow in the dark
- Exoplanet evolution? Mini-Neptunes may shed their atmospheres and become super-Earths
- Space photos: The most amazing images this week!
- The top space stories of the week!
- February 4
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- The International Space Station will plunge into the sea in 2031, NASA announces
- Young stars illuminate 'Chamaeleon' stellar nursery in new Hubble image
- Director Roland Emmerich says he's finished with the 'Stargate' franchise
- Winter Olympics 2022: See China's stadiums from space in these snowy satellite photos
- SpaceX and NASA eye Dragon parachute issue ahead of next astronaut launch
- The International Space Station will eventually die by fire
- 'Moonfall' pulls scenes from space shuttle Endeavour move 10 years ago
- The best space gifts and deals for kids 2022
- SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage to crash into moon 1 month from today
- Axiom Space's 1st space station crew approved by NASA, ISS partners
- NASA prepares for moon's dark south pole in eerie lights-out 'spacewalk' (photo)
- How to debate a flat-Earther
- NASA, SpaceX to provide Crew-4 astronaut launch update today. How to listen live.
- Distance to Mars: How far away is the Red Planet?
- NASA honors Black History Month with live webcasts
- The chances of early life on Mars faced a meteorite problem
- 'Moonfall' director Roland Emmerich talks disaster, destruction and the inspiration for his moon-crashing new film (video)
- Purple space 'lightning' spews from stellar corpse, creating cosmic shock waves (photo, video)
- February 3
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- China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter takes amazing video selfie for lunar New Year
- The alignment of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has begun
- What is the biggest star ever observed?
- Life-enabling moons can probably only form around small planets, study finds
- NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins to set new record for Black women in space: report
- The top 5 deep-space objects to look for in the winter night sky
- SpaceX launches 49 Starlink satellites, lands rocket on droneship at sea
- Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon review
- The 1st poster for 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' evokes the (final) frontier for new Paramount Plus spinoff
- Megaconstellations like SpaceX's Starlink may interfere with search for life by world's largest radio telescope
- Astra aiming for 1st Florida launch on Saturday
- Best Lego Star Wars sets 2022
- NASA hopes James Webb Space Telescope will unlock secrets of 'super-Earths' and hot rocky worlds
- Watch live as SpaceX launches more than four dozen Starlink satellites today
- Advanced GOES-T weather satellite to launch in March with instrument fix
- Making 'Moonfall': Geophysicist Mika McKinnon talks about the fun of annihilating Earth in the fictional disaster film (video)
- February 2
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- SpaceX launches classified spy satellite for US military, lands rocket
- NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission rocket faces new delays
- Lego Star Wars Boba Fett's Starship is 20% off on Amazon
- 'Moonfall' filmmakers saved NASA shuttle simulator now in museum
- These photos of SpaceX's Italian satellite launch and rocket landing are amazing
- Fisher debuts Artemis, Moonwalker space pens for return to moon
- NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission: Live updates
- Best sci-fi TV shows of all time
- The moon and Jupiter pair up in the night sky tonight! Here's what to expect.
- The history of the universe: Big Bang to now in 10 easy steps
- NASA delays rollout of Artemis 1 moon mission's SLS megarocket until March. Hear why today.
- SpaceX will launch a classified spy satellite on a new Falcon 9 rocket today and you can watch it live
- Update: No launch day doubleheader for SpaceX's NRO and Starlink launches
- NASA lays out plan for the International Space Station's final years
- Watch NASA astronaut Victor Glover and colleagues talk space station research today
- Tom Cruise asks NASA astronaut Victor Glover all about spaceflight (video)
- Marvel TV shows ranked, worst to best
- The mission to reduce the carbon footprint of astronomy
- February 1
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- 'The Book of Boba Fett' chapter 5 is an incredible episode of 'The Mandalorian'
- Powerful solar flare from recent sun eruption should reach Earth Wednesday
- New Milky Way mosaic reveals nearly 1,000 strange 'filaments' at the heart of our galaxy
- Mars rover Perseverance collects new sample after clearing pebble clog
- Space shuttle Challenger and the disaster that changed NASA forever
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope turns on cameras to look at first star target
- Earth has an extra companion, a Trojan asteroid that will hang around for 4,000 years
- How to photograph the moon using a camera: techniques, kit, and settings
- How many galaxies are there?
- Astrophotography for beginners: How to shoot the night sky
- Lunar New Year 2022 roars in with celebratory Google doodle
- Best monocular 2022: Kit you can use for stargazing
- Full moon calendar 2022: When to see the next full moon
- Moon phases 2022: This year's moon cycles
- The brightest planets in February's night sky: How to see them (and when)
- Best night sky events of February 2022 (stargazing maps)
- Night sky, February 2022: What you can see this month [maps]
- Chinese astronauts celebrate lunar new year on Tiangong space station, a first
- Albert Einstein: His life, theories and impact on science
- Hubble Space Telescope spots an 'oddball' starburst
- The first life on Earth depended on a deadly poisonous gas, study suggests
- SpaceX launches Italian Earth-observation satellite, lands rocket
