SpaceX's Starship just turned 10 years old. When will it go to Mars?
A decade after Elon Musk publicly unveiled plans for the fully reusable megarocket, Starship has reached orbit. How far away is Mars? ...
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On this day in space! Oct. 14, 1947: Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, the first X-plane
On Oct. 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier for the first time! Here's why it mattered. ...
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Life after the moon: Artemis II's Christina Koch steps down from active astronaut duty
Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch will become NASA's acting deputy chief engineer on Nov. 1. All four Artemis II crewmates have now stepped away from active sp...
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'The X-Files' is officially returning as Hulu picks up Ryan Coogler's 'reimagining' of the sci-fi icon
Trust no one. ...
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Cosmic 'jellyfish' wows skywatchers after SpaceX launch | Space photo of the day for Oct. 14, 2026
A "jellyfish" in the early-morning sky created by SpaceX's launch of the CRS-35 cargo mission on Oct. 13, 2026. ...
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The 1st SpaceX Starship to survive a launch to space just came home to its launch site
After surviving its splashdown and a grueling journey at sea, SpaceX's Ship 40 has returned to Starbase, where engineers will study the first recovered Starship upper sta...
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Four years ago, NASA punched an asteroid. Europe's Hera probe arrives this month to inspect the wreckage
NASA's DART mission made a cosmic mess four years ago — and now a new spacecraft is ready to scout out exactly what the first-of-its-kind collision accomplished. ...
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Scientists discover that some of the universe's biggest explosions may have never happened at all
Scientists have discovered that some of the universe's most powerful explosions, hypernovas, may not happen at all. ...
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On this day in space! Oct. 13, 1773: Astronomer Charles Messier discovers the Whirlpool Galaxy before we ever knew it was a galaxy
On Oct. 13, 1773, a French astronomer named Charles Messier discovered the "Whirlpool Galaxy," also known as Messier 51, or M51. Here's why it mattered. ...
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