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SpaceX’s Ninth Starship Test, First with Recycled Booster, Fails During Re-entry

SpaceX views the flight as a major data opportunity to refine Starship’s reusability ahead of future lunar missions

China Launches Tianwen-2 on Mission to Sample Earth’s Quasi-Satellite Asteroid and Survey a Comet

Hidden Venus Co-Orbital Asteroids Could Pose an Unpredictable Threat to Earth

Solar Storms Accelerate Starlink Satellite Decline to Near-Daily Re-Entries

Astronomers Observe X-Rays from Mysterious 44-Minute Radio Transient

Rice University Models Assign 40% Chance to Planet Nine’s Existence

Geomagnetic Storm Keeps Aurora Borealis Glowing Over Northern U.S. Wednesday Night

First 2025 Manhattanhenge Aligns Setting Sun With City Street Grid

Researchers Warn Venus Co-Orbital Asteroids Could Endanger Earth

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Chinese Laser System Reads Millimeter‐Scale Text From 1.36 km

Webb Peers Into Cosmic Dawn With Deepest Single-Target View of Abell S1063

Cona Adaptive Optics Reveals Hidden Dynamics in Sun’s Corona

SpaceX to launch ninth Starship test flight with first reused Super Heavy booster

SpaceX Dragon Completes ISS Resupply, Sonic Boom Rattles Southern California

Strauss' 'Blue Danube' to Beamed Into Deep Space for Bicentennial Tribute

Mysterious Metallic Sphere in Colombia Stirs Scientific Investigation

Doubts Deepen Over Potential Biosignature on Exoplanet K2-18b

Astronomers Capture First Direct Evidence of Quasar Radiation Disrupting Neighboring Galaxy

Study Reveals Jupiter’s Early Size and Magnetic Power

Astronomers Capture First Evidence of Quasar Radiation Halting Star Formation in Galaxy Collision