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SpaceX's Starship will reach orbit this year on road to Mars, Elon Musk says

The company is developing a giant rocket known as Starship to help make Mars colonization and a variety of other ambitious exploration feats possible. Starship prototypes have taken just a handful of low-altitude hops off Earth's surface ...

Musk foresees Florida as a long-term home for Starship operations

Spaceflight Now

Spaceflight Now

SpaceX currently operates two launch pads at Cape Canaveral for its Falcon rockets. At pad 39A, once home to NASA's Saturn 5 moon rocket and space shuttle launches, SpaceX launches astronaut crews to the International Space ...

Did the 'Black Death' Really Kill Half of Europe? New Research Says No.

In the mid-1300s, a species of bacteria spread by fleas and rats swept across Asia and Europe, causing deadly cases of bubonic plague. The "Black Death" is one of the most notorious pandemics in historical memory, with many experts estimating that it ...

Arianespace launches 34 OneWeb satellites on Soyuz rocket in 1st launch of 2022

In its first mission of 2022, the European launch provider Arianespace launched Soyuz Flight VS27 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana at 1:09 p.m. EST (3:09 p.m. local time, or 1809 GMT).

What Is Starship? SpaceX Builds Its Next-Generation Rocket

The giant, gleaming spacecraft is being designed to carry NASA astronauts to the moon, as well as the dreams of Elon Musk's space company.

James Webb Space Telescope's groundbreaking optics explained by NASA

A new explainer video the agency posted on YouTube talks about the huge telescope's optics and how they will let astronomers peer deep into the universe's history for future science work, ranging across subjects from exoplanets to the formation and ...

Asteroid Ryugu samples, now on Earth, reveal inner workings of the space rock

Pieces of rock from the asteroid Ryugu splashed down on Earth in 2020. Now, scientists studying the samples are revealing the asteroid's true nature. Ryugu is a near-Earth asteroid that Japan visited with its Hayabusa2 spacecraft. The craft launched in ...

Discovery of what ailed Dolly the dinosaur is a first, researchers say

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CNN

The fossil of this dinosaur, nicknamed "Dolly" for Dolly Parton, has revealed what could be the first evidence of a respiratory infection in a dinosaur, according to new research. A study detailing the findings published Thursday in the journal Scientific ...

NASA to unveil 1st images from James Webb Space Telescope today. Here's where to find them.

The images won't be great, but will be unveiled at 10:30 am ET (1530 GMT) ahead of a NASA press conference. This animation of the James Webb Space Telescope shows how light is reflected from its mirrors onto its scientific instruments.

NASA shares concerns about SpaceX's new generation of Starlink satellites

SpaceX submitted a proposal to the FCC to put 30,000 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit as part of a "Gen 2" Starlink system. There are currently about 1,800 operational Starlink satellites in orbit and there have ...