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SpaceX defends airspace safety ahead of Florida Starship launch plans

With plans to launch the massive Starship from Florida next year, SpaceX defended its commitment to airspace safety after a Wall Street Journal article claimed an explosive mission in early 2025 was a greater danger to some flights than previously reported.

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Patches of the moon to become spacecraft graveyards, say researchers

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landedPatches of the moon are destined to become spacecraft graveyards where dead lunar satellites and other defunct hardware can be crashed into the ground, far away from sites of cultural and scientif…

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Russia’s Next Space Station Could Reuse Its ISS Parts—Leaks and All

Reduce, reuse, recycle.

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Crash clock says satellites in orbit are three days from disaster

Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other outage

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Comet 3I/ATLAS from beyond solar system carries key molecule for life

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin of life

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Astronauts successfully return to Earth after ISS command change – video

Three crew members left the International Space Station and landed back on Earth after 245 days in space.The cosmonaut and station commander, Sergey Ryzhikov, handed over a symbolic key to the Nasa astronaut Mike Fincke during a change of command ceremony onboard the station.The spacecraft landed a…

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5 mind-boggling Moon mysteries that science cannot explain

With a diameter of about 3,476 kilometers the Moon is a quarter the size of Earth, all other moons in our solar system orbit their planets around the equator, our moon does not, and there are lunar rocks that have been found to contain PROCESSED METALS such as Brass, Mica and Uranium 236 and Neptuni…

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Subaru Telescope reveals a hidden giant planet

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some of the sharpest ground-based images ever taken. Using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaiʻi, the OASIS survey tracked subtle stellar wobbles to pinpoint where unseen worlds were lurk…

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Ancient Space Dust Washes Up in Rooftop Gutters

Microscopic particles from space have been collecting in the gutters of Paris, Oslo and Berlin, revealing incredible insights to the mysteries of our solar system. Article by Ian O’Neill Through dogged determination, Jon Larsen has become driven to find space particles, which date back to when our s…

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A close-up look <br>at the first metal <br>part made in space

This February, the first-ever metal part 3D-printed in space landed on Earth. Produced in the European Space Agency’s Metal 3D Printer Technology Demonstrator on the International Space Station, it is now in the hands of ESA’s engineers at ESTEC, the agency’s technical centre in the Netherlands, who…

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See the 100,000th photo of Mars taken by NASA's groundbreaking Red Planet orbiter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft has just taken its milestone 100,000th photo of the Red Planet using its high-definition camera. It reveals a dark region of moving sand dunes.

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Stargazing over the Christmas holidays 2025: 10 great reasons to look up

Your guide to the best sights the night sky has to offer from Dec. 20, 2025, to Jan. 4, 2026 — and the gear you'll need to see them.

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The stargazing events to look forward to in 2026

There are a host of celestial events to get excited about next year – including a total solar eclipse. Abigail Beall is lining up her calendar

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Watch Jeff Bezos's successful Blue Origin rocket launch – video

Blue Origin successfully launches its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It is only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos's company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and supplies to the moon. The 321ft (98-meter) New Glenn blasts into…

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Starwatch: After the Geminids meteor shower, it is the turn of the Ursids

Patient watchers should wrap up warm to witness one of nature’s subtler events on night of 22 to 23 December If the Geminids whetted your appetite for meteor showers, then you are in luck. This week it is the turn of the Ursids. Admittedly, they are nowhere near as plentiful as the Geminids, produci…

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Safety Panel Calls Out NASA for Downplaying the Boeing Starliner Mess

The space agency failed to declare the spacecraft's thruster glitch as a mishap, creating confusion and uncertainty.

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Organic materials may be covering Mars according to the Curiosity Rover

Analysis from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover suggests the planet is covered in organic materials. Jennifer Eigenbrode, who is a biogeochemist and geologist working at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, said she was convinced that organics are “all over Mars.” Eigenbrode brought up the disc…

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European Service Module-4 is ready to sail

In a few days, ESA’s fourth European Service Module will leave the integration halls of Airbus in Bremen, Germany, setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the next step of its journey. The module will propel NASA’s Orion spacecraft towards the Moon during Artemis IV, supplying the crew with water,…

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Astrophotography Target Planner: Discover Hidden Nebulas

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Trump could revitalize NASA’s space exploration without wasting money

People don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) these days, it seems. Since aerospace travel isn’t seen as the technological miracle that it once was, people often pass off NASA as a thing of the past. Donald Trump is not one of those people, …