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Space.com

SpaceX’s first Starship test flight is currently set to launch from the company’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas no earlier than Monday, April 17. Liftoff is targeted for 9 a.m. EDT ( …

Space.com

Artemis 2 will be the first spaceflight for Hansen, who is a Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut. But Hansen is highly experienced in other matters. His career experience includes piloting fighter jets for NORAD, mentoring an astronaut class and working …

The New York Times

The nearly 400-foot moon and Mars rocket is on the launchpad in South Texas as engineers prepare it for a test flight part of the way around the Earth. Give this article. Image A tall rocket and booster stands next to a launch tower above wispy clouds …

CNN

Spectators gathers to watch the SpaceX Starship on its Boca Chica launchpad after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration granted a long-awaited license allowing Elon Musk’s SpaceX to launch the rocket to orbit for the first time, near Brownsville, Texas, …

Space.com

Jump to: What is gravitational lensing? Additional resources. Galaxy filled image captured by the James Webb Space …

The New York Times

Elon Musk’s silver-hued vision for sending humans to the moon and Mars is standing next to a 480-foot launch tower in the southern corner of Texas. It’s a new SpaceX rocket called Starship that is more powerful than any vehicle that has traveled to …

Space.com

The 600-pound RHESSI spacecraft is expected to reenter on Wednesday (April 19) at 9:30 p.m. ET, plus or minus 16 hours.

Space.com

The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft has taken its first “selfies” from space, catching stunning images with Earth as a backdrop. The images were taken in the hours following the European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft’s departure from the …

Space.com

Astronomers have directly detected and imaged a gas giant orbiting another star by combining different techniques for hunting exoplanets. Researchers first looked at a catalog of star-mapping data combined from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia …

The Verge

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched its JUICE spacecraft to study Jupiter’s icy moons on Friday, April 14th. The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission will visit three of Jupiter’s largest moons — Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto — to …