China takes on Elon Musk's Starlink with hundreds of low-orbit satellites

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A Long March-2C carrier rocket carrying a new-generation ocean color monitoring satellite blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China Nov. 16, 2023. The satellite has successfully entered the planned orbit.
A Long March-2C carrier rocket blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

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NASA scientists think some planets are shrinking because powerful radiation from their cores is pushing away their atmospheres

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An artist's concept shows the variety of rocky, Earth-like planets that might exist across the universe.

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Photos show how SpaceX's Starship evolved from a trash-can-shaped prototype to the most powerful rocket ever built

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Side-by-side images show a trach-can0shaped prototype of Starship flying in the air, next to a picture of the latest Starship prototype being stacked on top of its booster.
Side-by-side images show two iterations of Starship, the Starhopper on the right and the Starship megarocket on the left.

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Scientists used a galaxy cluster that warps space-time as a giant magnifying glass to find 2 distant galaxies

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James Webb Space Telescope's view of Pandora's Cluster.

NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh)

Rick and Morty Just Fired Its Canon in a Game-Changing Episode

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4 times NASA astronauts lost things in space

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Jasmin Moghbeli (top) and Loral O'Hara (bottom) performing maintenance outside the international Space Station.

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SpaceX workers reportedly took Adderall and IV fluids, and some slept in the bathroom, to keep up with Elon Musk's deadlines

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Elon Musk founded SpaceX in 2002.

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ESA inks deal with Airbus, Voyager Space to secure place on ISS successor

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NASA's James Webb and X-ray telescopes combine powers to discover the most distant black hole ever in a rare state of infancy

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X-ray image of the msot distant black hole ever discovered.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand

Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic lays off 185 employees as it doubles down on efforts to build new spaceships

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Virgin Galactic spaceship
Virgin Galactic is opening a factory in 2024 that will produce its new Delta Class spaceships.

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