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• 'Man of Tomorrow': Release date, plot, cast & everything we know about the 'Superman' sequel

  12-11-2026 23:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  It feels like yesterday when we were discussing Superman, the first big-screen entry in James Gunn's rebooted DCU. Now Gunn is out, and Skydance (the company formed by the merger of Warner and Paramount) is already dismantling his grand plans for the DCU. That means that Man of Tomorrow, which arrives next summer, will be the final entry in Gunn's ambitious, and occasionally divisive, DC experiment. The DCU's first chapter — officially titled 'Gods and Monsters' — gave us Supergirl and Clayf
  
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• This supernova impostor baffled astronomers for 15 years — until they found a hidden black hole feeding on an unstable star

  12-11-2026 22:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  A cosmic imposter that has faked being a supernova 27 times and counting is actually a hot, luminous, and decidedly unstable star that is being fed on by a vampiric black hole or neutron star, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered.When a massive star reaches the end of the road and runs out of nuclear fuel to power fusion reactions in its core, the star is destroyed in a supernova explosion. That’s what astronomers thought they had found on 11 January 2012, when they observed what
  
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• On this day in space! Nov. 12, 2014: European Philae probe lands on Comet 67P, bounced twice and then got lost for nearly 2 years

  12-11-2026 21:19 via Latest from Space.com
  
  On Nov. 12, 2014, a European spacecraft named Philae landed on Comet 67P. To say it was a bumpy landing would be an understatement. The European Space Agency's Philae lander separated from an orbiter called Rosetta ahead of its historic landing in 2014. It was supposed to use harpoons to secure itself on to the surface of Comet 67P, but the harpoons never fired. When it touched down, it immediately bounced back up into space. The first bounce brought Philae half a mile above the comet's surface
  
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• SpaceX's Starship megarocket will launch to orbit on Nov. 13. Will you be able to spot it in the night sky?

  12-11-2026 21:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  SpaceX's Starship megarocket is slated to launch on its ambitious 15th flight test as soon as this Friday (Nov. 13). Will you be able to spot its leviathan upper stage, known as Ship, or its Starlink satellite passengers as they circle Earth during the historic orbital jaunt? Flight 15's 75-minute launch window opens at 5:45 p.m. EST (2245 GMT) on Nov. 13. Starship will fly from SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas, where it will be 4:45 p.m. at the opening of the window — about an hour befor
  
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• 'Warhammer Survivors' is the perfect gateway into the 40K universe

  12-11-2026 20:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  We've had no shortage of great Warhammer 40K games lately, but most aren't exactly aimed at the casual crowd. Warhammer Survivors changes that, finally providing curious gamers with an easy entry point into the grim darkness of the 41st millennium.Developed by Auroch Digital (in collaboration with Vampire Survivors' Poncle), this new spin on the survivors-like roguelite subgenre mixes the sci-fi 40,000 setting with the pure fantasy Age of Sigmar universe. This means heroes and enemies from all o
  
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• Dark matter breakthrough coming? Euclid space telescope unveils its 1st look into the dark universe (video)

  12-11-2026 18:28 via Latest from Space.com
  
  On Thursday (Nov. 12), the Euclid space telescope released its first major batch of data, capturing the light of more than a billion objects over an area of sky as big as 9,500 full moons. The data release lays the foundation for one of the largest-ever 3D maps of the cosmos and many groundbreaking discoveries about the nature of dark energy and dark matter.The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope has been called the "Dark Universe Detective" because of its capability to investig
  
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• Pakistani astronaut set to become 1st international visitor to China's Tiangong space station this month

  12-11-2026 18:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  An astronaut from Pakistan is set to launch on China's Shenzhou 24 mission in the coming weeks and become the first-ever international visitor to the Tiangong space station. A pair of astronaut candidates from Pakistan have been training at the Astronaut Centre of China in Beijing, following an agreement reached between China and Pakistan in Islamabad in February 2025 and a subsequent selection process. China's human spaceflight agency confirmed in a Nov. 7 press statement that the upcoming Shen
  
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• The replicants are running the city in thrilling final trailer for ‘Blade Runner 2099’ (video)

  12-11-2026 17:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  One of the most anticipated fall TV series, "Blade Runner 2099," recently dropped its final neon-tinted trailer, and now we’ve finally got a handle on the plot dynamics of this dystopian thriller set in the cyberpunk world of Ridley Scott's original. Prime Video's bold and brooding 8-episode series lands Nov. 25 as a tangential sequel to Denis Villeneuve's "Blade Runner 2049," unfolding some 50 years after the 2017 feature film. Now the artificial inmates are running the asylum when violent re
  
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• Satellite snaps rare birds-eye view of the ISS | Space photo of the day for Nov. 12, 2026

  12-11-2026 16:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  A satellite looks down at the International Space Station in orbit.(Image credit: HEO)A commercial satellite has spotted the International Space Station (ISS), giving us a unique view of the orbiting lab from above. What is it?Most of the time, when we see the ISS, it is from down here on Earth or from the viewpoint of the astronauts onboard, peering out the windows at the station's limbs, solar arrays and instruments. But in this snapshot, which was posted on X on Nov. 9 by the Australian compa
  
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• I used the Vaonis Vespera 3 for weeks and here’s who I would recommend it to — full review

  12-11-2026 16:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  I’ve spent a lot of time with smart telescopes, from relatively inexpensive Seestar models to the original Vaonis Vespera and the Vespera Pro. They all promise essentially the same thing — you put a telescope outside at night, choose something interesting on your smartphone and let the technology take care of the rest. The Vaonis Vespera 3 does that exceptionally well, but after spending several nights with it, I’m convinced it’s designed for a rather different kind of buyer.The telescop
  
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• The 'eclipse of the century' will plunge these 8 wonders of the Roman Empire into darkness on Aug. 2, 2027

  12-11-2026 15:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  Ancient Egyptian temples will inevitably dominate the story of the total solar eclipse on Aug. 2, 2027. After all, the path of totality crosses Luxor, home to Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, and some of the ancient world's most famous monuments. But follow the moon's shadow west and another ancient civilization comes into view. Before reaching Egypt, totality will sweep across the Mediterranean and North Africa, passing over an extraordinary collection of Roman cities, fortresses, theaters, tem
  
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• Astronomers stunned after James Webb Space Telescope discovers the earliest pair of black hole-powered quasars

  12-11-2026 14:00 via Latest from Space.com
  
  Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered the oldest pair of supermassive black hole-powered quasars ever seen. There's just one problem: they shouldn't exist!The compact quasar pair, spotted with the aid of the Gemini North telescope, has been designatedJ1602+4228AB and nicknamed Nāpōwawāʻenakaulua, which means "Two celestial bodies of fathomless powerful darkness in the brilliance of heat reincarnating energy into the universe." The compact quasar pair is see
  
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• SpaceX launches 2nd mystery mission for US Space Force in 6-day span (video, photos)

  12-11-2026 06:24 via Latest from Space.com
  
  SpaceX launched a classified mission for the U.S. Space Force from California tonight (Nov. 11), the second such flight for the company in a six-day span.A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight at 11:36 p.m. EST (8:36 p.m. local California time; 0136 GMT on Nov. 12), kicking off a mission called USSF-627.Vandenberg hosted a similar liftoff less than a week ago: On Nov. 6, a Falcon 9 sent the USSF-432 mission skyward from the site, which lies on Californ
  
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• SpaceX launches 2nd mystery mission for US Space Force in 6-day span (photos)

  12-11-2026 06:24 via Latest from Space.com
  
  SpaceX launched a classified mission for the U.S. Space Force from California tonight (Nov. 11), the second such flight for the company in a six-day span.A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight at 11:36 p.m. EST (8:36 p.m. local California time; 0136 GMT on Nov. 12), kicking off a mission called USSF-627.Vandenberg hosted a similar liftoff less than a week ago: On Nov. 6, a Falcon 9 sent the USSF-432 mission skyward from the site, which lies on Californ
  
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