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SpaceX launches Starship SN15 rocket and sticks the landing in high-altitude test flight

SpaceX's SN15 stuck the landing. The private spaceflight company's latest Starship prototype aced a high-altitude test flight today (May 5), checking every box from takeoff to touchdown for the first time. "We are down! The Starship has landed," John ...

Is there a pattern to the universe?

For decades, cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal — that is, if it looks the same no matter how large the scale. After completing massive surveys of galaxies, scientists finally have an answer: No, but kind of, in a way.

Watch live: upgraded Starship prototype makes soft landing after test flight

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is set to attempt to launch and land an upgraded prototype for the company's next-generation Starship vehicle in South Texas on Wednesday, the company's first Starship test flight since winning a $2.9 billion NASA contract to use the craft to land ...

SpaceX's next flight for Crew Dragon Resilience is a private launch of 4 civilians

Safely strapped inside were four astronauts: NASA's Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, as well as Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). SpaceX recovery teams ...

His Ship Vanished in the Arctic 176 Years Ago. DNA Has Offered a Clue.

The New York Times

The New York Times

For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage.

Chinese rocket debris is expected to crash into Earth soon. It's not the first time.

The good news is that debris plunging toward Earth -- while unnerving -- generally poses very little threat to personal safety. As Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, told CNN: "This is not the end of days.".

The oldest human burial in Africa was a toddler laid to rest with a pillow

Analysis of the cave sediment and the bones suggested that the burial was intentional and perhaps involved the child's wider community in funeral rites, the authors of the study said, demonstrating that humans at that time were capable of symbolic thought and ...

Researchers propose repurposing tabletop sensors to search for dark matter

Now, Singh, Jack Manley, a UD doctoral student, and collaborators at the University of Arizona and Haverford College have proposed a new way to look for the particles that might make up dark matter by repurposing existing tabletop sensor technology.

Visit 'Mars' with me in Space.com's new 'Space Traveler' mini-documentary on Friday

Have you ever wanted to go to Mars? Follow along with me, Space.com senior writer Chelsea Gohd, as I become an analog astronaut in a brand new documentary premiering on Space.com this Friday at noon EDT (1600 GMT). In the documentary, you will ...

Biologists discover a trigger for cell extrusion

The researchers discovered this mechanism in the worm C. elegans, and they showed that the same process can be driven by mammalian cells; they believe extrusion may serve as a way for the body to eliminate cancerous or precancerous cells.