A rare blue supermoon rising August 30 will be the biggest full moon of 2023 — and won't happen again until 2037

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A supermoon rises behind a downtown office building in Kansas City, Missouri, on April 7, 2020.

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Elon Musk is trying to launch his Starship mega-rocket again after the first attempt ended in an explosion. It's been 10 years in the making.

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A static fire test of Starship on 9 February 2023 (left). On the right, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, is pictured on 1 December 2020 in Berlin, Germany.

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Black holes can speed through the universe at 17,500 miles per second, scientists say — and the discovery could reveal new laws of physics

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Black holes can get caught in each others gravitational grip and either collide or recoil.

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The race to the moon is heating up as lunar resources could top $1 quadrillion in value

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A 3D reconstitution of the India moon lander is seen descending on the moon.
A still from a livestream shows a 3D reconstitution of India's historic moon landing on August 23.

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India becomes the first country to land on one of the moon's lunar poles

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India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft landed days after Russia's Luna-25 mission ended in a crash landing. The country is the first to land on one of the moon's lunar poles.

Elon Musk is gearing up to launch his Starship mega-rocket in August. Here are 2 changes SpaceX made to stop it exploding.

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Side by side images show Starship on its first integrated launch in April 20 next to a picture of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

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Russia's attempt to land on the moon for the first time in almost half a century ended in disaster

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A close up of the moon's surface is shown, strewn with craters.
Russia hadn't landed on the moon since 1976.

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Astronauts are banned from drinking alcohol at work, but this hasn't stopped them sneaking everything from communion wine to cognac into space

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Buzz Aldrin held a secret communion service on the moon and consumed wine and bread.

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A once-in-century solar storm could fry power grids and knock out satellites. Here's why scientists worry it could happen soon.

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Image of massive solar prominence.
A long solar prominence erupting off the surface, taken by the Solar Dynamic Observatory on August 31, 2012.

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You can win $50,000 if you successfully hack a US government satellite

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Satellite over the Earth's surface.
A satellite over the Earth's surface.

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