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Fight space ghosts as an astronaut cat in spooky Halloween 2024 Google Doodle

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 23:11

Celebrate Halloween with a cosmic new Google Doodle, featuring an astronaut cat vanquishing creepy creatures across Earth’s atmosphere.

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Dark matter might live in a dense haze around stellar corpses

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 23:11

The extreme qualities of neutron stars could mean these dead stellar remnants gather dense clouds of hypothetical particles called “axions” around them, potentially shedding light on dark matter.

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The Lego Black Panther building set is over $100 off pre-Black Friday

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 22:11

The near-3000 piece Lego Black Panther building set is over $100 off ahead of Black Friday and is one of its lowest price this year on Amazon.

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Happy Dark Matter Day! Meet the usual — and unusual — suspects in this cosmic mystery

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 21:11

Dark matter makes up 85% of the stuff in the cosmos, but scientists have no idea what it is. On Dark Matter Day (Oct. 31), Space.com invites you to interrogate the suspects.

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Will China return Mars samples to Earth before the US does?

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 20:11

China has moved up its timeline for bringing Mars samples to Earth, aiming to do so as early as 2028 — long before the U.S. is slated to achieve this same ambitious goal.

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Can ‘failed stars’ have planets? James Webb Space Telescopes offers clues

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 04:11

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these “failed stars” can have planets.

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Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin endorses Trump for president

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 03:11

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person ever to walk on the moon, endorsed Donald Trump in a statement released today (Oct. 30).

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NASA astronaut snaps spooky photo of SpaceX Dragon capsule from ISS

Submit on Thursday, October 31st, 2024 03:11

The Dragon, named Freedom, is flying SpaceX’s Crew-9 mission for NASA.

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