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SpaceX's next-generation Starship spacecraft atop its powerful Super Heavy rocket is launched on its sixth test at the company's Boca Chica launch pad in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., November 19, 2024. REUTERS/Joe Skipper
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‘New generation’ Starship set to push boundaries in highly anticipated launch
The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sits at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during its launch on January 16, 2025 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin launches New Glenn rocket, the company’s first SpaceX contender
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience lunar landers, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 15, 2025.
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SpaceX launches two moon missions in one fell swoop
Firefly's Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander will deliver 10 NASA CLPS science payloads to Mare Crisium.
Firefly Aerospace
The next leg of the new moon race is about to kick off — and it could be the most exciting yet
The Blue Origin New Glenn rocket on its pad ahead of the launch attempt in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 13.
Blue Origin
Blue Origin stands down from New Glenn launch attempt — again
13 January 2025, Saxony, Dresden: View from Dresden to Radebeul of the setting moon in the morning. Photo: Robert Michael/dpa (Photo by Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images)
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See the full wolf moon overtake Mars in the night sky and glimpse a planetary parade
A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for its inaugural launch at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January 10, 2025.
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A powerful potential challenger to SpaceX’s rocket dominance is poised to launch
December 27, 2024: A wedding takes place on the beach in Cape Canaveral, FL as Blue OriginÕs New Glenn rocket prepares for the first Òhot fireÓof its engines Friday, December 27, 2024 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, FL.
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On a long-dormant pad in Florida, a rocket that could challenge SpaceX’s dominance is poised to launch
Charon and Pluto: Strikingly Different Worlds<br />NASA ID: PIA19966<br />A composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left), taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. This image highlights the striking differences between Pluto and Charon. The color and brightness of both Pluto and Charon have been processed identically to allow direct comparison of their surface properties, and to highlight the similarity between Charon's polar red terrain and Pluto's equatorial red terrain. Pluto and Charon are shown with approximately correct relative sizes, but their true separation is not to scale. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the spacecraft's Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC).
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Astronomers have for decades tried to figure out how Pluto captured its largest moon. Now, there’s a new theory
01 NASA Perseverance Mars Rover SCREENSHOT
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NASA collected potential evidence of life on Mars. Now it’s pitching new plans to retrieve the cache
Massive piece of space junk lands in Kenyan village
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Massive ‘space object’ fragment crashes into remote village in Kenya
Quadrantid meteor streaks across the sky over Beypazari district of Ankara, Turkey on January 5, 2022.
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How to watch the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year
Northern Lights illuminate the sky above Joshua Tree National Park during the Perseids Meteor shower in Joshua Tree, California, early on August 12.
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When to see ‘blood’ moons, eclipses and meteor showers in 2025
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History-making probe achieves closest-ever approach to the sun
This depicts the satellite-filled sky that is now a reality and getting more crowded every week! This adds together exposures taken over just 30 minutes on an early June night when, from my latitude of 51° N satellites even in low Earth orbit are lit all night by sunlight. Many of the parallel streaks heading generally horizontal west to east (right to left) may be from groups of SpaceX Starlinks. Others traveling vertically north-south are more likely from Earth observation satellites. There is at least one natural streak in the image — a meteor at centre, caught by chance on one frame. It appears as a colored and tapered streak. Other uniform undashed streaks may be from high-altitude satellites moving much more slowly. By comparison, most satellites appear as dashed lines because the image is a blend of many 2-second-long exposures with a gap of one second between exposures when the camera shutter was closed. So the motion of the satellites and image stacking turns them into dashes. The longer the dashes, the faster the satellite is traveling, with the fastest satellites being the lowest. This is looking due south and all the trails disappear low in the south above the trees, as that's where the Earth's shadow is, even on this June night. So the satellites aren't lit when they are in that small part of the sky. They emerge from the shadow heading north and disappear into the shadow heading south. The shadow creates the obvious boundary of where satellite trails are visible. At other times of the year low-orbit satellites are visible only after sunset or before sunrise, especially from lower latitudes. But not near summer solstice, and from higher latitudes. The field of view is about 100° by 75°. (Photo by: Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
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What is ‘Kessler Syndrome’ — and why do some scientists think the space disaster scenario has already started?
Starship's Super Heavy Booster is grappled at the launch pad in Starbase near Boca Chica, Texas, on October 13, 2024, during the Starship Flight 5 test. 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. (Photo by SERGIO FLORES / AFP) (Photo by SERGIO FLORES/AFP via Getty Images)
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Why sonic booms from the most powerful rocket ever built have some scientists worried