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NASA funds new tech for upcoming 'Super Hubble' to search for alien life: 'We intend to move with urgency'

NASA is ramping up its efforts to search for signs of life throughout the universe, and has directed companies to begin developing technologies that will help it do so using the space agency's Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) space telescope concept.Seven companies have been awarded three-year, fixed-price contracts to explore the engineering challenges that need tackling in order to create

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Superheavy-lift rockets like SpaceX's Starship could transform astronomy by making space telescopes cheaper

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights, and SpaceX plans to launch it into orbit.A month later, a rival rocket company, Blue Origin, flew its

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ISS astronaut medical evacuation latest news: Crew-11 pilot to hand control of station over today

NASA will return four astronauts to Earth early from the International Space Station due to a medical concern with one of the Crew-11 astronauts. Here's the latest news.NASA will return 4 ISS astronauts home early in 1st-ever medical evacuation ISS astronaut evacuation shouldn't interfere with Artemis 2 moon missionHow does NASA handle astronaut medical issues in space?

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Free-to-Play PvP Title ‘Puppet Master: The Game’ Will Leave Steam on February 25

Sadly for fans, October Games’ multiplayer FPS Puppet Master: The Game, which launched back in 2024 on Steam, is pulling up shop. The developer announced over the weekend that the game and its DLC will be delisted from Steam on February 25. No reason has been given as to why the game is being delisted. Since its launch, the game has remained free-to-play (supported by paid DLC), and can

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‘Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble’ Public Domain Horror Crossover to Film This Summer

Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble — the culmination of the “Twisted Childhood Universe” that kicked off with Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey — will enter production this year. Announced back in 2024, the Avengers-style crossover is set to shoot this summer, Jagged Edge Productions confirmed on Twitter. Poohniverse creator Rhys Frake-Waterfield is attached to helm the film, bringing

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Satellite sees 40-year-old iceberg melt, turn blue | Space photo of the day for January 12, 2025

A colossal Antarctic iceberg that first broke free in the 1980s is now soaking up the summer warmth, and from orbit seems to be turning a shade of aquamarine. In this recent image from NASA's Earth Observatory, iceberg A-23A is streaked with blue meltwater ponds and surrounded by a halo of fractured ice, signs that the long-lived "megaberg" is perhaps in its final days.What is it?Iceberg A-23A is

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Toxic Men and Robot Ethics in ‘Ex Machina’ [Horror Queers Podcast]

Garland’s Big Debut. After celebrating the holidays with gateway horror classic Jumanji (listen), underseen Christmas thriller P2 (listen), and bizarro 1981 slasher Night School (listen), Horror Queers is kicking off 2026 with Alex Garland‘s 2014 feature directorial debut. In Ex Machina, Blue Book employee Caleb Smith (Domhnall Gleeson) is chosen by his brilliant, but narcissistic

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‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Writers to Pen Tim Burton’s ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman’ Remake

KPop Demon Hunters screenwriters Danya Jimenez and Hannah McMechan are following up their golden hit with a huge gig. THR has learned that that duo has signed on to pen Tim Burton‘s remake of Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman for Warner Bros. Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) wrote an earlier draft of the script, as reported when news of the film broke back in 2024. Burton is attached to direct the

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‘Dreadout Remastered Collection’ Finally Arrives January 14 for Xbox One

Xbox players will finally get their hands on the DreadOut Remastered Collection later this week. Previously released for Steam, the Nintendo Switch and the PlayStation 5, Soft Source Publishing and developer Digital Happiness will release the collection for the Xbox One on January 14, with pre-orders available now via the Microsoft Store. A compilation consisting of the original DreadOut and

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Astronomers baffled by 'mysterious disruptor' with a mass of 1 million suns and a black hole for a heart

A completely dark and mysterious body with the mass of 1 million suns and a possible black hole heart continues to baffle and intrigue astronomers despite further investigation.This "mysterious disruptor" is located around 11 billion light-years away and was discovered in 2025 thanks to its gravitational influence. It is now the most distant body ever detected due to its gravitational effects

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Astronomers discover cosmic hamburger has the potential to grow giant planets

If you've ever discovered something completely unexpected in your hamburger, it was likely that neither delight nor intrigue were your first reaction. However, that isn't the case for a team of astronomers who have recently discovered something they didn't predict in a "cosmic hamburger," one of the biggest planet-forming disks of gas and dust, or protoplanetary disks, humanity has ever

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Teen hires classmate to brutally stab his mother to death

In this episode of Crime Watch Daily: A single mother's stabbing death leads to the discovery of a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by her own son. Plus, the case of a missing woman ends in disaster. What happened to Aly Yeoman?

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Indy the Dog from ‘Good Boy’ Just Won Best Horror Movie Performance at Astra Film Awards

Indy, the real-life dog of director Ben Leonberg, plays the canine protagonist in last year’s Good Boy, a horror movie uniquely told from the perspective of the pooch. Can a dog give one of the best performances of the year? According to the Astra Film Awards, Indy did just that. The 9th Annual Astra Film Awards took place in Los Angeles this past Friday night, and Good Boy‘s Indy

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‘Pathologic 3’ Out Now on PC, PlayStation 5; Xbox Series Version Coming January 23 [Trailer]

Developer Ice-Pick Lodge and publisher HypeTrain Digital’s psychological horror game Pathologic 3 is out now on Steam with a 20% launch discount. And despite previously saying that the PlayStation 5 version of the game would be arriving at a later date, you can grab it today on the PlayStation Store. Xbox Series fans won’t have to wait too long, though. Pathologic 3 will launch on

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I visited the largest collection of public telescopes in the US in Oregon's high desert, and the dark skies blew me away

SUNRIVER, Oregon  — Perfectly perched amid an expansive plateau of sagebrush, Ponderosa pines, and juniper trees in Central Oregon's High Desert, the Sunriver Nature Center and Observatory offers exceptional vantage points to observe all the wonders of the heavens.During a recent visit, I was invited to join Observatory Manager Paul Poncy and visiting guests for a grand tour of the facility,

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ISS astronaut medical evacuation latest news: New commander to take charge soon

NASA will return four astronauts to Earth early from the International Space Station due to a medical concern with one of the Crew-11 astronauts. Here's the latest news.NASA will return 4 ISS astronauts home early in 1st-ever medical evacuation ISS astronaut evacuation shouldn't interfere with Artemis 2 moon missionHow does NASA handle astronaut medical issues in space?

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'A completely new manufacturing frontier': Space Forge fires up 1st commercial semiconductor factory in space

In-orbit manufacturing start-up Space Forge has produced its first plasma in orbit aboard the ForgeStar-1 satellite. It's a world first and a major step toward the company's vision of making novel semiconductors in space, which could revolutionize future electronic technologies.UK-based Space Forge launched its pioneering ForgeStar-1 craft in June 2025 and has been bringing it to life since. In

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