After a minor delay, SpaceX has conducted the first successful hop test of their Starship Hopper, a key step in validating the systems that will go into the full-scale prototype.
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Last week, India shot down one of its own satellites with a missile. According to NASA, the resulting debris field is an "unacceptable" threat to the ISS.
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A technical issue has led to the "hop test" of the miniature version of the SpaceX Starship to be delayed once more. However, the company is still on track with their overall development of the system.
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It's always awe-inspiring to see the clockwork motion of the heavens, transpire in real time. In a slow motion Universe, occultations give us the chance to see the cosmos pull off a celestial hat trick. This happen in a blink of an eye type event such as when the Moon, a planet or an asteroid winks out a distant star, or transpire as a leisurely affair as the Moon covers, then uncovers the disk of a planet.
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NASA's Terra satellites recently spotted a fiery meteorite in Earth's atmosphere, which exploded above the Bering Sea.
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SpaceX has released an impressive new image that shows its proposed Starship reentering the atmosphere of Earth.
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A new study takes a look at the Fermi Paradox by considering the possibility that alien von Neumann probes could be devouring themselves.
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The OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed some interesting things about the asteroid Bennu, which includes the 11 plumes it witnessed in the past 3 months.
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Located in the vicinity Ursa Major constellation, roughly 12 million light years from Earth, is the starburst galaxy known as the Messier 82 (aka. the Cigar Galaxy).
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Recent observations have revealed a pulsar that appears to have been accelerated by the very supernova explosion that created it.
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