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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket on first test flight

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches massive New Glenn rocket on first test flight

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday,…
Smoke from LA wildfires is visible from space in grim satellite images

Smoke from LA wildfires is visible from space in grim satellite images

Grim satellite images taken by NASA show the out-of-control Los Angeles wildfires…
NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’ from 15.4 billion miles into space

NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’ from 15.4 billion miles into space

The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it…
Chinese spacecraft lands on moon’s far side to collect rocks in growing space rivalry with US

Chinese spacecraft lands on moon’s far side to collect rocks in growing space rivalry with US

A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon Sunday to collect…
NASA locks 4 volunteers into 3D-printed virtual ‘Mars’ for over a year

NASA locks 4 volunteers into 3D-printed virtual ‘Mars’ for over a year

Four volunteers will spend the next 378 days in a simulation of…
Columbia space shuttle disaster: Remembering seven astronauts lost on Feb. 1, 2003

Columbia space shuttle disaster: Remembering seven astronauts lost on Feb. 1, 2003

HOUSTON, Texas — Seven astronauts were tragically killed in Feb. 2003 during…