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On April 20, 2023, a new SpaceX rocket called Starship exploded over the Gulf of Mexico three minutes into its first flight ever. SpaceX is calling the test launch a success, despite the fiery end result. As a space policy expert, I agree that the “rapid unscheduled disassembly” – the…

The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, known as Rhessi for short, is set to plummet back to the planet’s surface after 21 years in space

An old NASA satellite that studied the sun has plunged back to Earth

The US space agency, NASA, chose the Starship spacecraft to bring astronauts to the Moon in 2025 on a mission known as Artemis III

The crescent moon, Venus and the Pleiades will reach conjunction during the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower this Saturday. Here's how to watch the stunning show.

On its first test flight Thursday morning, SpaceX's massive, uncrewed Starship rocket roared off the launch pad, soared into the south Texas sky for a few minutes, but ultimately exploded into a trail of smoke.

The flight plan had called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after liftoff, but that didn’t happen.

SpaceX launched its gigantic Starship rocket toward space for the first time ever today (April 20), a milestone that could presage humanity's expansion out into the solar system.

Largest and most powerful rocket ever built blasts off on test flight that is hoped to be step on human journey to Mars

The sun may reach the peak of its current solar cycle in 2024, one year ahead of official predictions, new research reveals. But solar mayhem may still occur in the next five years.

The Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and is designed to send astronauts to the moon, Mars or beyond.