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

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The Euclid space telescope's first images show distant, hidden, and irregular galaxies that could help solve 2 of astronomy's grandest mysteries

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A photo of distant galleries, many millions of white spatters on a black background, like flecks of paint, and orange and purple orbs.
Euclid's view of irregular galaxy NGC 6822.

European Space Agency/Euclid Consortium/NASA; image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi

‘Dark universe’ space mission reveals its first colour images of the cosmos

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