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SpaceX destacked its Starship Mars rocket on Wednesday (Jan. 25) to continue gearing up for the giant vehicle's first-ever orbital test flight.

Noctilucent clouds hovered over parts of Florida's Space Coast after SpaceX rocketed 56 Starlink satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (Jan. 26).

The space rock, called 2023 BU, was discovered less than a week ago.

The National Science Foundation and SpaceX have come to an agreement on how to mitigate the damage to ground-based astronomy that Starlink satellites present.

That's a 27% saving on a 4K mirrorless camera that we rate as one of the very best for beginners on the market, it won't last long though as they're currently low in stock.

An H-IIA rocket launched a radar reconnaissance satellite to orbit for the Japanese government on Wednesday evening (Jan. 25).

Scientists are working hard to try to salvage a pair of spacecraft that lost their launch — and the solution might include the most notorious asteroid out there, Apophis.

NASA released images of the Boeing Starliner crew capsule resembling R2-D2 while being mated to a new service module ahead of a crewed flight test to the International Space Station.

Lego and Hasbro team up to bring 1980s icon Optimus Prime into brick form.

New research found that the rubble-pile asteroid Itokawa can survive collisions for 10 times longer than its conventional, single-body counterparts.

China's Yutu 2 rover is still operating after four years on the moon and has returned new images from the lunar far side.

"Star Wars Jedi: Battle Scars" tie-in prequel novel lands in March from Random House Worlds

A micrometeoroid strike on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in December 2022 has spurred NASA to talk to SpaceX about possibly increasing the shielding on its Crew Dragon capsule.

The spinning, solid inner core of the Earth may be slowing down by a minuscule amount, according to evidence from earthquakes.

Judging by the astronauts who came to remember Walt Cunningham, the Apollo 7 pilot's reach extended far beyond his 1968 launch into space. The group took part in a panel before a funeral service.

The weather station on NASA's Perseverance rover has chronicled the meteorology above Jezero Crater.

SpaceX will launch 56 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (Jan. 26), and you can watch the liftoff live.

A new teaser for the third and final season of "Star Trek: Picard" has dropped, itself teasing a longer trailer that will air during the AFC championship on Sunday (Jan. 29).

Every spacecraft glitches occasionally, and even the most powerful space telescope ever launched isn't immune.

The image shows a close-up view of comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) during perihelion, when it was at its closest to the sun on Jan. 12, 2023.

It's the lowest price we've seen on the Celestron NexStar 4SE telescope for a while and you can now get a huge $135 discount.