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CNN

After the first test launch of a SpaceX Starship rocket — the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed — ended in an eruption of flames over the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, the company sought to frame the mission as a success.

CNN

The Lyrids were first recorded in 687 BC, making them one of the oldest recorded meteor showers meteors. This year’s shower will peak on Saturday night. Owen Humphreys/PA Images/Getty Images.

Space.com

A mysterious spectacle of green laser beams in the sky was caught on video by motion-detecting cameras positioned outside Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan. Daichi Fujii, the museum curator, set up the motion-detecting cameras to capture meteors and …

Space.com

NASA leadership had a lot to say after today’s explosive first test flight of SpaceX’s Starship. NASA has tapped Starship for its upcoming Artemis 3 mission, which will put astronauts back on the moon no earlier than 2025. Following that, Starship will …

CBS News

SpaceX’s huge Starship rocket, the most powerful ever built, blasted off on an unpiloted maiden flight Thursday and successfully flew for more than two minutes before tumbling out of control and exploding in a cloud of flaming debris.

CNN

The FAA, which licenses commercial rocket launches, granted the company’s request for an uncrewed flight test last week. Our live coverage has ended. Follow the latest space news here or read about the Starship …

Astronomy Magazine

By sunset, the Moon has moved farther afield, sitting roughly halfway between the pair of Uranus and Mercury (which hang close together near the western horizon) and Venus, which lies higher up in Taurus.

Space.com

NASA’s Perseverance rover just snapped an up-close view of its Mars companion Ingenuity, revealing the robotic helicopter’s dusty blades. Perseverance recently traveled within only 75 feet (23 meters) of Ingenuity, which flew to the Red Planet with the …

Phys.Org

Physicists believe most of the matter in the universe is made up of an invisible substance that we only know about by its indirect effects on the stars and galaxies we can see. We’re not crazy! Without this “dark matter”, the universe as we see it …

Science News

A photo of a person standing next to a snow mobile and a stack of supplies. Surveys conducted in 2016 at West Antarctica’s lower Kamb Ice Stream revealed a cavern hidden far beneath the surface. At the end of 2021, researchers drilled into it.