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NASA safety advisors voice concerns over Boeing's Starliner, SpaceX's Starship

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft descends under parachutes on Dec. 22, 2019, at the conclusion of the Orbital Flight Test-1 mission. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani. Members of NASA's independent safety advisory panel on Thursday cautioned the space agency ...

SpaceX planning two Starlink launches Friday and Saturday, weather permitting

File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket on the SLC-4E launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Credit: National Reconnaissance Office. Weather permitting, SpaceX teams in California and Florida plan to launch two Falcon 9 rockets Friday and Saturday, ...

Yes, the new photo of the Milky Way's monster black hole looks fuzzy. Here's why it isn't.

Capturing the first-ever image of the Milky Way's black hole was no easy task. The historic image released Thursday (May 12), of what scientists call Sagittarius A* took a planet-wide set of telescopes called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT).

Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse: Is it the 1st of 4 supermoons?

Retired NASA eclipse scientist Fred Espenak has been watching the night sky ever since he was eight years old, and plans once again to look up for the forthcoming lunar eclipse Sunday (May 15). After about six decades staring at the sky, the Arizona ...

Scientists grow 1st plants in moon soil

More than 50 years after astronauts brought the last moon-rock samples to Earth, scientists have successfully grown plants in lunar soil from three Apollo missions for the first time. All the moon-soil plants grew slowly and relatively poorly, ...

SpaceX passes 2500 satellites launched for Starlink internet network

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbs into the sky over Vandenberg Space Force Base to begin the Starlink 4-13 mission. Credit: Gene Blevins / LA Daily News. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Friday afternoon from California's Central Coast with another ...

SpaceX to launch 53 Starlink internet satellites, land rocket Saturday: Watch live

If all goes according to plan, the rocket's first stage will come back to Earth and land at sea on the SpaceX droneship Just Read the Instructions about nine minutes after liftoff. You can ...

NASA astronaut floats on the space station with Earth in the background (photo)

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins floats above Earth in a gorgeous new photo from the International Space Station. Watkins launched to the orbiting lab on April 27 as part of SpaceX's Crew-4 mission, making history as the first Black woman to embark on a ...

What time is the Super Flower Blood Moon lunar eclipse?

Top telescope pick! Celestron Astro Fi 102. (Image credit: Celestron). Looking for a telescope for the lunar ...

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SpaceX on pace to shatter US launch records. Again

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New York (CNN Business) SpaceX has been on a tear in 2022, notching 18 rocket launches and two astronaut splashdowns in just the first 130 days of the year — an unprecedented pace for the company and the commercial launch industry.