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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SpaceX's Starship launch kicked up soil and sand that rained down on a nearby beachside town 5 miles away

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The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023.
The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023.

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Elon Musk congratulated SpaceX for an 'exciting' launch of Starship after the rocket exploded

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A photomontage shows Starship blowing up on one side and a picture of Elon Musk sitting in the control room on the other.
Elon Musk sat in the control room on Thursday watching the launch of Starship, which exploded about 4 minutes into the launch.

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Watch how SpaceX launched Starship, the tallest and most powerful rocket ever built, on its first orbital flight

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Starship minutes before the launch attempt that was aborted on April 17, 2023.

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