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SpaceX Starship Explodes During Routine Test

One of Elon Musk's SpaceX Starships exploded during a routine test late Wednesday in Texas, law enforcement said, in the latest setback to the billionaire's dream of turning humanity into an interplanetary species.

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SpaceX's Starship explodes in Texas during preparations for 10th test flight

SpaceX's newest Starship vehicle exploded on a stand in Texas late Wednesday night (June 18), as it was being prepped for the program's 10th-ever test flight.

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See the moon rise alongside the giant planets Neptune and Saturn predawn on June 19

The alignment occurs hours after the moon hits its third quarter phase.

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2 Chinese spacecraft just met up 22,000 miles above Earth. What were they doing?

A new Chinese refueling spacecraft met up with an older satellite in high Earth orbit this month, apparently marking a step forward in orbital servicing.

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Mars joins the Spring Triangle this week: Here’s when and how to see it

Mars will remain in the Spring Triangle until mid-September.

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Watch Honda launch (and land) its 1st reusable rocket in this wild video

The Japanese automaker Honda just hit a key milestone in rocket reusability with a near-bullseye landing during a vertical test flight in Hokkaido.

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Astronomers create a dazzling, elaborate map of nearby galaxy in thousands of colors

Astronomers have revealed a nearby spiral galaxy in all its brilliant glory, shining in thousands of colors

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Firefly Aerospace to launch 'Ocula' moon-imaging service as early as 2026

Firefly Aerospace plans to launch a new "lunar imaging service" called Ocula, which will collect detailed imagery using a set of moon-orbiting spacecraft.

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Colossal solar flare erupts from Earth-facing sunspot, sparking strong radio blackouts over Pacific Ocean (video)

The prolific flare factory doesn't look like stopping anytime soon.

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Astronomers capture the most intricate picture of a galaxy in a thousand colors ever seen (photo, video)

A stunning new image of the Sculptor Galaxy, located 11 million light-years away, painted in thousands of colors by the VLT, reveals the intricacies of galactic systems.

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Satellite streaks: Can the huge new Vera Rubin Observatory function in the megaconstellation age?

Satellite streaks are a blight on astronomy. How much are observations by the Vera Rubin super telescope going to suffer from this contamination?

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Tiny ‘primordial’ black holes created in the Big Bang may have rapidly grown to supermassive sizes

Supermassive black holes that seem too large to exist in the early universe may have grown from primordial black holes formed in the first second after the Big Bang.

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China's next-gen astronaut capsule for moon missions aces crucial pad-abort test (video)

China's human spaceflight agency just conducted a crucial pad abort test for its Mengzhou spacecraft as it continues toward its goal of putting boots on the moon before 2030.

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How do baby planets grow? Study of 30 stellar nurseries sheds new light

Astronomers have used the ALMA radio telescope to investigate how planets grow in protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around young stars.

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Watch the stunning Mars and Regulus conjunction today with this free livestream

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Roman Space Telescope will use a century-old idea from Einstein to probe the nature of mysterious dark matter

Get ready for a new Roman Empire: A NASA space telescope will detect a staggering wealth of intricate gravitational lenses that could help unlock the mysteries of dark matter.

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Giant telescope mirror gets a cleaning | Space photo of the day for June 17, 2025

Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them.

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Huge galaxy cluster is wrapped in a cocoon 20 million light-years wide, NASA space telescope finds

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 million light-year-wide envelope of charged particles.

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50 years later, Apollo 17’s moon samples are still revealing secrets about lunar volcanoes

The beads are over 3.3 billion years old, and date from the formation of the "Man in the Moon."

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Tiangong Space Station Exposed? Conspiracy Theorists 'Debunk' Zero Gravity Claims, Scientists Respond

The footage, which formed part of a live educational broadcast from orbit, has sparked accusations that the video was staged on Earth, despite it being a legitimate experiment in space.

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SpaceX launch from California sends 26 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (video)

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket placed 26 Starlink internet broadband satellites into low Earth orbit, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 16, 2025.

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SpaceX, NASA target June 22 for launch of private Ax-4 astronauts due to ISS leak

Leaks aboard the International Space Station, as well as on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, delayed Axiom's next private astronaut mission, but the crew now has a target launch date of June 22.

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Star-forming cloud Chamaeleon I looks like a cosmic masterpiece in new Dark Energy Camera image (video)

Part of the closest star-forming region to us, known as the Chamaeleon Complex, has been illuminated by the light of young stars in this artwork by nature captured by the Dark Energy Camera.

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Behold! 1st images of artificial solar eclipse captured by ESA's Proba-3 mission

The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled.

The Independent UK

Scientists use satellites to mimic a total solar eclipse in space

Scientists said they are thrilled by the preliminary results

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