Photo shows the moment lighting struck the launchpad as SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket was preparing for liftoff

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A picture shows Falcon Heavy on its launchpad. A bolt of lightning hits the protection mast on the launchpad.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket sat atop its launchpad as it was struck by lightning on April 27.

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Elon Musk expects to spend $2 billion on Starship rocket after first launch explosion 'slightly' exceeded expectations

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A photo montage shows the Starship booster being fired on the left, and Elon Musk holding a thumbs up on the right.
The Starship mega-rocket's April 20 launch ended in an explosion, but Musk is still hopeful to launch again this year.

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Voyager 2 has been in space for 45 years. NASA just found a way to keep it alive for another 3, despite it being 12 billion miles from Earth.

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This artist's drawing shows one of the Voyager probes.

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A Russian 'inspector' satellite appears to be chasing a secret US military satellite in a game of cat and mouse

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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft ascends after its launch, as seen from the International Space Station.

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Scientists capture first direct image of a supermassive black hole, 6.5 billion times the size of the sun, spewing out jets of plasma

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A picture shows the black hole and the jet of matter emanating from it in false-color shades of yellow to purple.
A picture shows the jet of matter emanating from the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. Zoomed out is a picture of the black hole's accretion disk

R.-S. Lu (SHAO), E. Ros (MPIfR), S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Photos show SpaceX's Starship rocket blew a crater into its launchpad and flung concrete chunks hundreds of feet during liftoff

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The crater in the launch pad after SpaceX’s Starship took off.
The crater in the launchpad after SpaceX's Starship took off.

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Up-close photos of the Martian moon, Deimos, are forcing scientists to rethink how it formed in the first place

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Illustration of Mars on the left, Mars' moon Phobos near the center, and Mars' moon Deimos on the far right.

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I've studied the sun for 23 years. Here's what happened during the last solar maximum and what to expect from this one.

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Four images of a solar flare at different wavelengths.
The upcoming solar maximum should cause more frequent solar flares and coronal mass ejections.

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The Lyrid meteor shower could give you the chance to see up to 20 shooting stars this weekend. Here's how to watch.

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A shot of the night sky shows the milky way dappled with shooting stars behind trees outlined in the foreground.
The Lyrid meteor shower can offer about 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour

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Why SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket looks unlike anything the company has ever built before

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SpaceX Super Heavy first-stage booster with the black side of its Starship second stage booster showing.
SpaceX's starship is designed to be the tallest, most powerful rocket ever built.

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