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It’ll be a late lunch for SpaceX mission operators at Cape Canaveral due to the mid-day launch of another stack of Starlink satellites. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket will fly again next week, if all goes according to plan. Elon Musk announced that timeline target in a Tuesday evening (May 13) X post, which also

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, an Expedition 73 crew member aboard the International Space Station, photographed the full “Flower” moon in May 2025. (Image credit: NASA/Nichole Ayers) The May 2025 full

Ancient volcanic heat may have shaped the moon from the inside out, keeping one side thinner, warmer and more geologically active than the other, a new study suggests. The moon‘s

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon Titan, capturing the first evidence of cloud formation in this moon’s northern hemisphere. Titan is the

Precious moon samples brought back to Earth by China’s Chang’e 5 mission in 2020 have finally been shared with international researchers — but the law has made it difficult for

Update for 5:30 p.m. ET on May 14: Gilmour Space announced on May 14 that it’s no longer targeting a launch on that date, due to an issue detected with

The sun roared to life early Tuesday (May 14), unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare from a newly emerging sunspot region AR4087. The eruption peaked at 4:25 a.m. EDT (0825

Rising out of the remote Mojave Desert, NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar is a solitary satellite dish that communicates with spacecraft. In its downtime, the facility’s antennas can track objects

SpaceX’s latest Starship vehicle has breathed fire yet again. The company performed a long-duration “static fire” test with a Starship upper stage at its Starbase site in South Texas on