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SpaceX launched its enormous Starship rocket for the fifth time ever today (Oct. 13), on a dramatic test flight whose goals included a mid-air catch of the first-stage Super Heavy booster.

Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau flew three times in space, conducting some tricky Canadarm robotic arm moves. On the 40th anniversary of his first flight, he celebrates how far Canada has come.

SpaceX successfully "caught" the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket Sunday as it returned to the launch pad after a test flight, a world first in the company's quest for rapid reusability.

Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 11, 2024 This blogger is in the United Kingdom, just north of London, where we yesterday had beautiful night skies with a red aurora that was even visible with the unaided eye, and looke...

The “Epoch of Reionization” was a critical period for cosmic evolution and has always fascinated and mystified astronomers. During this epoch, the first stars and galaxies formed and reionized the clouds of neutral h...

Find details about the launch sequences for the orbiter, which is targeting an Oct. 14 liftoff on its mission to search for ingredients of life at Jupiter's moon Europa. In less than 24 hours, NASA's Europa Clipper space...

While in Milan for international meetings, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson was among the witnesses as Estonia signed the Artemis Accords and became the 45th nation to join the United States and other signatories agreeing ...

For the first time ever, SpaceX has followed through on a Starship test launch by bringing back the Super Heavy booster for an on-target catch in the arms of its “Mechazilla” launch-tower cradle in Texas. “This is ...

SpaceX launched its fifth Starship vehicle Oct. 13, successfully making an unprecedented "catch" of its Super Heavy booster back at the launch site. The post SpaceX launches fifth Starship, catches Super Heavy booster ap...

Based on the data from the Magellan-Clay telescope in Chile, astronomers have performed a chemo-dynamical study of a very metal-poor star known as HE 2315'4240. Results of the study, published on the preprint server arXi...

Growing up in Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Diaz didn't imagine that one day she would work at NASA. Today, she serves as technical project coordinator at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia, supporting its Aeronautic...

Al crecer en Puerto Rico, Yomayra Cruz-Díaz no imaginó que algún día trabajaría en la NASA. En la actualidad, se desempeña como coordinadora de proyectos técnicos en el Centro de Investigación Langley de la NASA ...