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By Donna Lu Starlink satellites trail across images from DECam Cliff Johnson, Clara Martínez-Vázquez, DELVE Survey Elon Musks SpaceX interfered with astronomy again, a few days after its second batch of Starlink satellites were launched. SpaceX launched 6…

To be fair, China's space launch program has not been without hiccups. The country's space program is still trying to bring its large Long March 5 vehicle back into service after a catastrophic failure during just its second mission, in July 2017. And the cou…

NASA has announced more partnerships to help it in its ambitious quest to send the first woman and the next man to the moon by 2024. The space agency has already selected nine companies to help it with its future space missions, but on Monday it announced a …

The companies are aiming to land in the early 2020s In its ongoing effort to send cargo and eventually people to the lunar surface, NASA announced five new partnerships with commercial space companies that have designed robotic landers that can take large pa…

There’s literally a lot more stuff in space than there was last week or at least, the number of active human-made satellites in Earth’s orbit has gone up quite a bit, thanks to the launch of SpaceX’s first 60 production Starlink satellites. This week also saw…

The company conducted the tests near Landing Zone 1 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, starting with two one-second burns for two of the Crew Dragon's 16 Draco thrusters. Those thrusters will be used for maneuvering and attitude control, as well …

SpaceX has confirmed that it ran a static’s fire test of its Crew Dragon astronaut capsule launch escape system. That’s a key step that it needed to run, and one that is under especially high scrutiny since a static fire of its thrusters back in April resulte…

SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech billionaire Elon Musk, was created with the mission of taking humans to Mars. Nearly two decades on, it's getting ever closer to achieving that goal while accomplishing plenty of other milestones along the way. Elon…

(CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.) — Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun Monday in a rare celestial transit. Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes to spot Mercury — a tiny black dot — as it passed directly between Earth and th…

Space is already congested but companies including SpaceX and Amazon have plans to launch thousands of satellites into orbit in years to come.Credit: ESA Spaceflight company SpaceX is set to launch 60 communications satellites into orbit today as the basis f…