SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday.…
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Meteorite strike in Canada caught on home security camera : NPR
Fragments of a meteorite that hit a home on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in July 2024.…
Bezos and Musk launching massive rockets in billionaires' space race
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are launching two of the world’s largest rockets into orbit within…
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches new test flight : NPR
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket stands ready for another launch attempt from Launch Complex 36 at…
2 private lunar landers head toward the moon in a roundabout journey : NPR
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with a payload of a pair of lunar landers…
Astronomers are debating weird objects called “little red dots” : NPR
A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data to compile one of the…
The first full moon of 2025 is here : NPR
The phases of the Moon for January 2025. NASA hide caption toggle caption NASA The first…
New photos show the volcanic plains of Mercury after a spacecraft fly-by : NPR
A spacecraft got up close and personal with the surface of Mercury this week. European Space…
NASA hedges its bets on costly Mars rock mission
NASA has decided it’s going to pursue parallel missions to attempt to retrieve samples of rock…
Bezos’ Blue Origin is getting ready to launch its biggest rocket : NPR
Blue Origin’s reusable New Glenn rocket is almost ready to head into space, having successfully completed…