It looks like Elon Musk's SpaceX is now worth $175 billion – that's more than Disney or Comcast

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SpaceX's huge Super Heavy-Starship
SpaceX's huge Super Heavy-Starship.

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A rogue star could save Earth from extinction in a billion years by knocking it out past Pluto

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An artist's impression of Earth's orbit around the sun.

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'Vampire' stars could be using galactic henchmen to help feed on their companions

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Artist's impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a type-Be "vampire" star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background).

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Doctor Who Has Released an Official Recipe for Its Horrifying Curry

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When Doctor Who returned to our screens this past weekend in “The Star Beast,” it brought with it all sorts of weird and occasionally fearsome threats, from

Ariane 6 rocket set to restore Europe’s space access next year

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A powerful solar eruption headed for Earth could trigger a strong geomagnetic storm by Friday and stunning aurora across Canada

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Solar flare seen on sun taken by NOAA satellites.
A large solar flare erupted from the sun earlier this week generating a powerful explosion directed toward Earth.

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The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning so fast, it's squishing space-time down like a football

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A cross-section showing Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX is buying a company that makes parachutes for spacecraft for $2.2 million

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A SpaceX dragon capsule splashes down after a successful mission in 2020.

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Scientists think they've finally solved the decades-long mystery of why our Milky Way galaxy is so rare

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Illustration of what the Milky Way Galaxy may look like to a distant observer.

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A cluster of sunspots 15 times bigger than Earth could send a solar storm our way as early as Saturday

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A cluster of sunspots, 15 times the size of the Earth, seen on November 23, 2023.

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