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SpaceX scrubs Starship Flight 13 twice in 24 hours
SpaceX has had a frustrating week at Boca Chica. The company attempted to launch Starship's 13th integrated flight test and was forced to abort the.
SpaceSpaceX is gearing up for Starship's 13th test flight this week
SpaceX is preparing to launch Starship on its 13th test flight later this week, and honestly, the pace at which this programme has accelerated is ...
SpaceChina's Long March 10B just nailed a sea landing on its first flight
China's reusable Long March 10B rocket flew, dropped a satellite in orbit, and landed at sea on its debut. Here is why a first-flight recovery ...
SpaceAvi Loeb is now running the White House UFO advisory group
If you have followed the ongoing saga of unidentified aerial phenomena in American public life, the latest development will either delight or alarm ...
SpaceGravitational wave catalogue 2026: 390 Black hole collisions and counting
The 2026 gravitational wave catalogue just added 161 new black hole collisions, taking the total to 390. Here is why the biggest haul yet matters.
SpaceBlue Origin is raising $10 billion at a $130 billion valuation
Blue Origin funding hits a new gear: $10 billion at a $130 billion valuation, Bezos' first big outside round. Here is what it means for the space ...
SpaceVenus Aerospace raises 90 million dollars to build a new kind of rocket engine
Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based hypersonic propulsion startup, has raised a 90 million dollar Series B funding round to continue development of its.
SpaceAstronomers found a third galaxy with almost no dark matter
A third galaxy with little to no dark matter has been confirmed with the Keck Observatory, sitting in a strange linear chain that standard models ...
SpaceNASA launched an emergency mission to save the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth
The Swift Observatory has been one of NASA's most productive space telescopes since its launch in 2004.
SpaceSpaceX has now launched 1,000 rockets. Here is what that number actually means.
SpaceX has reached 1,000 rocket launches, a milestone so large it requires a moment to actually absorb.
SpaceThe Sun threw ten flares in 24 hours, and the aurora could reach unusually far south this weekend
A sharp spike in solar activity, ten flares in a single day, is raising aurora chances across northern latitudes for the July 4 weekend. Here is how ...
SpaceAstronomers just found a habitable-zone planet 25 light-years away, and that distance is the whole story
A newly confirmed planet sits in its star's habitable zone just 25 light-years from Earth, close enough for the next wave of telescopes to actually ...
SpacePrivate pilots are now flying orbital missions for the US Space Force
The line between commercial spaceflight and national security operations has officially blurred further.
SpaceChina's Tianwen-2 has arrived at the asteroid that might be a piece of our Moon
China's Tianwen-2 probe reached quasi-moon asteroid Kamoʻoalewa on June 7, 2026. It's now mapping the surface before attempting the first-ever sample ...
SpaceNASA's Roman Space Telescope launches August 30, eight months ahead of schedule
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is confirmed for August 30, 2026, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. With 100 times Hubble's field of view, it will ...
SpaceA Pacific Ocean rock just confirmed an ancient neutron star collision from 100 million years ago
Plutonium-244 found in a ferromanganese rock from the Pacific Ocean floor traces to a kilonova that happened roughly 100 million years ago. Published ...
SpaceAstrobotic is joining Voyager Technologies in a $300 million deal, and its Moon base mission continues
Lunar lander company Astrobotic has agreed to be acquired by defence tech firm Voyager Technologies for up to $300 million. NASA's Moon Base II ...
SpaceThe largest commercial comms satellites ever are now in orbit, and they talk to your phone
AST SpaceMobile launched three BlueBird Block 2 satellites on June 17, 2026. Each one spans around 2,400 square feet of antenna and is designed to ...
SpaceNASA names the Artemis III crew, and what the mission actually does might surprise you
Four astronauts assigned to Artemis III, including ESA's Luca Parmitano as the first European on an Artemis crew. But the mission won't land on the ...
SpaceAriane 6 sets a European payload record with 36 Amazon satellites and upgraded boosters
On June 17, 2026, an upgraded Ariane 64 launched 36 Amazon Leo satellites, setting a new payload record for European rockets at 22 tonnes. The ...
SpaceNASA picks Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space to launch Mars mission in 2028
NASA has selected Relativity Space, the rocket company chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to launch its Aeolus Mars orbiter in 2028.
SpaceStarship Flight 13 is targeting July 31. Here is what is different this time.
SpaceX is preparing Starship Flight 13 for a July 31 launch attempt using two new V3 vehicles, after completing a static fire test in June.
SpacePlanet Nine just got harder to believe in
New observations of distant Kuiper Belt objects show more stable orbits than the Planet Nine hypothesis predicts, weakening the case for a hidden ...
SpaceWebb found methane on an interstellar comet. It rewrites where comets come from.
Webb measured more methane than water in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a ratio no solar system comet matches, pointing to a birthplace far colder than ...