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Image caption Ketty Maisonrouge has tried on her spacesuit and is ready for take off Ketty Maisonrouge has waited 15 years for a trip that she knows will be out of this world. The 61-year-old business school professor signed up back in 2005 for the promis…

Today, January 6th, SpaceX is due to launch one of its Falcon 9 rockets into a Low Earth orbit carrying 60 Starlink satellites. The rocket was successfully test fired on January 4th. SpaceX will have a floating barge down range in the Atlantic Ocean ready to…

SpaceX has successfully fired up a Falcon 9 rocket for the first time in 2020, setting the company up for the first of potentially dozens of Starlink launches over the next 12 months. On the afternoon of January 4th, SpaceX loaded Falcon 9 with hundreds of t…

The impact is hard to even imagine. To date, only about a million people have had their whole genomes sequenced. And its not a very diverse cohort. More data from all over the globe will allow for more powerful, fine-grained analyses of how genes shape health…

From next week, a campaign to launch thousands of new satellites will begin in earnest, offering high-speed internet access from space. Astronomers are finding that satellites are so dazzling they are competing with their study of the stars. Photo: AFP But …

Residents in northern Montana reported a string of strange lights dotting the sky. What looked like UFOs from an alien invasion has turned out to be another consequence of SpaceXs Starlink satellite constellation. SpaceX launched 60 satellites into orbit bac…

Image copyrightMarco Langbroek/SatTrackCam LeidenImage caption Astronomers are concerned that the bright satellites could hinder their research Astronomers are warning that their view of the Universe could be under threat. From next week, a campaign to l…

Its time to look ahead to the coming year and all things that will be happening in space exploration. With new missions to Mars, a probe returning to Earth with samples taken from an asteroid, and even more batches of Elon Musks Starlink satellites going into…

Boeing's ST-100 Starliner was supposed to make it to the International Space Station as the company's first test launch prepping for human space travel. Instead it became the first U.S. space capsule made for human use to land on continental U.S. soil instead…

Boeing's uncrewed Starliner before launch. NASA Space is hard. That's a refrain we keep hearing. It applies to Boeing's uncrewed Starliner mission, which launched Friday morning, but won't make it to the International Space Station as planned.  SpaceX foun…