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What is Elon Musk's Starship?
Elon Musk's company SpaceX is building a vehicle that could transform space travel.
BBC News  ·  10 hours ago  ·  By By Paul Rincon
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship Explodes at End of Test Launch
Elon Musk's SpaceX recently launched and landed a third Starship test vehicle, the SN10, but shortly after returning to the ground the ship exploded into a fireball. Musk claims the starship will be safe for human transport by 2023.
Breitbart News  ·  2 hours ago  ·  By Lucas Nolan
NASA to provide first update on Perseverance rover since landing
NASA is slated to announce what it says is a "series of firsts" in its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission.
Fox News  ·  4 hours ago  ·  By Julia Musto
More than 300,000 people applied to join a billionaire on a trip to the moon
The Elon Musk company SpaceX's Starship SN9 exploded on landing as its test flight came to a fiery end in Texas.
Daily Mail  ·  4 hours ago  ·  By Ryan Morrison
SpaceX: Mars ship prototype explodes after first intact landing
Elon Musk’s last two prototypes reached similarly high altitude, but crash-landed in fireballs
The Guardian  ·  18 hours ago
SpaceX Starship prototype explodes after 'soft landing'
The third time was mostly the charm for SpaceX’s latest flight test.
FOX Business  ·  21 hours ago  ·  By James Leggate
SpaceX lands Starship prototype rocket for the first time after a high-altitude flight test
SpaceX was attempting a test flight of Starship rocket SN10 on Wednesday.
CNBC  ·  21 hours ago  ·  By Michael Sheetz
SpaceX Starship prototype sticks landing, then explodes
The launch and landing were successful, but the prototype exploded a few minutes after touchdown.
CBS News  ·  9 hours ago
SpaceX Starship suddenly explodes after seemingly solid landing
Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship exploded after seemingly nailing the landing on Wednesday.
New York Daily News  ·  16 hours ago  ·  By Storm Gifford
What Elon Musk's 42,000 Starlink satellites could do for — and to — planet Earth
SpaceX, Amazon, OneWeb and others want to bring high-speed internet to every part of the world. But experts worry this could come at a cost for space exploration.
Business Insider  ·  4 hours ago  ·  By Michelle Yan Huang, Bob Hunt, Dave Mosher
SpaceX late-night Starlink launch sends 60 more satellites to orbit
Elon Musk's rocket company is on a roll.
CNet  ·  3 hours ago  ·  By Eric Mack
SpaceX launches 60 new Starlink satellites, while Starship moves closer to being able to launch up to 400 at a time
SpaceX has launched another batch of its Starlink satellites – the usual complement of 60 of the low Earth orbit spacecraft, which will join the more than 1,000 already making up the existing constellation. This is the fifth launch of Starlink satellites for SpaceX this year, and the 20th overall. Earlier this year, SpaceX opened up […]
TechCrunch  ·  8 hours ago
SpaceX aborts Mars prototype rocket test launch with 0.1 seconds on the clock
Another SpaceX rocket prototype was fueled and ready for a test flight Wednesday, but in the final moments before liftoff, the vehicle's engines sputtered off and the company announced it had aborted the flight.
CNN  ·  23 hours ago  ·  By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business
SpaceX Starship rocket prototype nails landing... then blows up
The third time appeared to be the charm for Elon Musk's Starship rocket - until it wasn't.
Reuters  ·  17 hours ago  ·  By Reuters Staff
SpaceX Prototype Rocket Explodes Minutes After Making First Successful Landing
Space X's SN10 was the first Starship prototype to successfully touch down on the landing pad, despite exploding minutes later
People  ·  5 hours ago
Watch SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Explode Minutes After Successfully Landing
SpaceX's SN10 Starship prototype rocket exploded on the launch pad after a high-altitude flight test. 
The Daily Caller  ·  19 hours ago
SpaceX rocket explodes after successfully landing after high-altitude flight
SpaceX’s Starship prototype landed for the first time after a high-altitude test flight Wednesday but exploded shortly thereafter.
The Hill  ·  19 hours ago  ·  By Zack Budryk
Elon Musk Working To Establish His Own City For SpaceX In Texas
Billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, is at it again. This time, he is trying to create his own city in southeast Texas.
The Federalist  ·  8 hours ago
New Mars Photos Released by China's Tianwen-1 Probe 14 Days After NASA Landing
The probe consists of an orbiter, and a rover which will be sent down to the surface of Mars in the coming months.
Newsweek  ·  10 hours ago
Nasa rover Perseverance sends new images from Martian crater
More than 3.5 billion years ago, as life was emerging on Earth, streams flowed over a now barren expanse of Mars known as the Jezero crater.Nasa’s Perseverance rover, which landed there last month
www.thetimes.co.uk  ·  4 hours ago  ·  By Rhys Blakely, Science Correspondent
Watch live: Biden joins virtual call to congratulate NASA on Mars rover landing
President Biden is set to join NASA on a virtual call Thursday evening to congratulate the Perseverance team on its successful landing of the rover on Mars.The call is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. EST.Watch live in the video above.
The Hill  ·  1 hour ago  ·  By The Hill staff
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship SN10 rocket EXPLODES moments after test flight due to ‘methane leak’
SPACEX’s Starship SN10 prototype rocket exploded minutes after successfully landing on a concrete pad on Wednesday.The rocket stood upright on the g
The Sun  ·  12 hours ago  ·  By Jessica Kwong
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship SN10 EXPLODES due to ‘methane leak’ moments after completing 10km test flight
SPACEX’s Starship SN10 prototype rocket exploded minutes after successfully landing on a concrete pad on Wednesday.The rocket stood upright on the g
The Sun  ·  20 hours ago  ·  By Jessica Kwong
SpaceX's SN10 Starship Explodes, Elon Musk Gives It 'Honorable Discharge'
The prototype rocket's test flight on Wednesday was praised as a success, despite its fiery conclusion.
Newsweek  ·  12 hours ago
SpaceX Starship Lands Upright, Then Explodes in Latest Test
SpaceX’s futuristic Starship looked like it aced a touchdown Wednesday, but then exploded on the landing pad.
The Epoch Times  ·  18 hours ago
Minutes after Elon Musk declares success, Mars rocket explodes in giant fireball
The Starship SN10 launched from the SpaceX facility in Boca Chica, Texas Wednesday afternoon.
The Hill  ·  5 hours ago
SpaceX rocket lands in one piece — before blowing up into giant fireball
Third time's the charm? SpaceX's latest prototype rocket landed in one piece on Wednesday -- following two recent test flights that ended in huge explosions.
New York Post  ·  20 hours ago
SpaceX's Starship rocket lands but then explodes
Elon Musk's concept space vehicle completes a test flight but then destroys itself in flames.
BBC News  ·  21 hours ago  ·  By Jonathan Amos
Dogecoin Creator Billy Markus Wants Elon Musk to 'Literally' Send His Crypto to the Moon
Markus, the currency's co-founder, told Newsweek he thought it would be "really cool" if Musk could somehow blast some of the crypto into space.
Newsweek  ·  3 hours ago
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully lifts off with 60 new Starlink satellites
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched 60 new Starlink satellites early Thursday morning.
Fox News  ·  8 hours ago  ·  By Julia Musto
Video: SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites, 20th Starlink mission
SpaceX's sixth Starlink launch of 2021 takes its total number of internet satellites in orbit to 1,124. Its final goal is more than 40,000.
Business Insider  ·  11 hours ago  ·  By Kate Duffy
SpaceX’s Starship prototype flies to 32,000 feet and sticks the landing in third flight test
SpaceX has launched SN10 – the tenth iteration of its current prototype series of Starship, the heavy-lift reusable spacecraft it’s developing. Starship SN10 took off from Boca Chica, Texas, where SpaceX is developing the vehicle. It flew to a height of roughly 10 km or 32,000 feet, before performing a maneuver to re-orient itself for […]
TechCrunch  ·  21 hours ago
SpaceX Starship lands upright, then explodes in latest test
SpaceX’s futuristic Starship looked like it aced a touchdown, but then exploded on the landing pad with so much force that it was hurled into the air.
USA TODAY  ·  5 hours ago
World's first space hotel scheduled to open in 2027
Voyager Station is a cruise ship-style hotel built from modules connected into a ring that will rotate to create artificial gravity in orbit.
CNN  ·  10 hours ago  ·  By Francesca Street, CNN
World's first space hotel plans grand opening in just six years
The station’s namesake is a German engineer who worked for the Nazi rocket development program.
The Hill  ·  2 hours ago
SpaceX Starship prototype SN10 flies high, nails landing, then explodes
Third time's a charm. Elon Musk's Mars rocket prototype just made its first landing -- but shortly after it went boom.
CNet  ·  21 hours ago  ·  By Eric Mack
Japanese Billionaire Invites 8 People to Join SpaceX Mission Around the Moon
Japanese fashion mogul Yusaku Maezawa, who first announced his intention in 2018 to take a group of artists ...
NTD  ·  4 hours ago
US-China tensions threaten global climate change efforts
The world’s hopes for curbing climate change hinge on action by two giant nations whose relations are deteriorating: China and the United States.
New York Post  ·  1 hour ago
NOAA to release new climate 'normals' for temperature and precipitation
The start of a new decade means an update to NOAA's climate 'normals' for cities across the US -- but more rapid changes due to climate change is forcing NOAA to change things up.
CNN  ·  1 hour ago  ·  By Pedram Javaheri, CNN Meteorologist
SpaceX Starship SN10 launch: How to watch rocket prototype fly today
Elon Musk's Mars rocket lit up for a second on Wednesday but didn't get off the ground. A second launch attempt is coming.
CNet  ·  23 hours ago  ·  By Eric Mack
SpaceX lands Starship prototype for the first time — and then it blows up
SpaceX’s SN10 Starship landed successfully on Wednesday, but swiftly exploded in a fireball soon after landing.
The Verge  ·  21 hours ago  ·  By Joey Roulette
'Space hurricane' 600 miles wide discovered over the North Pole, scientists say
An enormous swirling “space hurricane” floated high above the Earth for about 8 hours before dissipating, a new study contends.
Washington Examiner  ·  1 hour ago
International climate scientists join call to halt Leeds Bradford airport expansion
Academics write to Robert Jenrick predicting dire consequences for climate crisis if plans go ahead
The Guardian  ·  7 hours ago
New study improves marine climate change evidence base
Scientists from the University of St Andrews and Marine Scotland have undertaken the first full mapping of carbon stores across the UK's offshore Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to provide updated evidence for those trying to address aspects of climate and environmental change.
Phys.org  ·  6 hours ago  ·  By Science X staff
Tenfold carbon emissions reduction needed to meet Paris climate goal
While 64 countries cut their fossil fuel emissions between 2016 and 2019, an international team of researchers, including an Earth system scientist at UCI, stressed that an even more pronounced reduction is going to be necessary to meet Paris Agreement goals to tackle global warming. In a study published today in Nature Climate Change, the team reported that a drop of .16 billion tons of CO2 per y...
Phys.org  ·  8 hours ago  ·  By Science X staff
NASA astronaut launches stop for nothing -- not even a pandemic. Here's how they did it
Four launches to the International Space Station carried on as planned in 2020, and the crew were able to remain safe on their journeys to and from Earth, due to NASA's long-standing Health Stabilization Program.
CNN  ·  12 hours ago  ·  By Ashley Strickland, CNN
Small-scale fishermen turn to apps and AI to tackle climate change
From weather predicting apps to using artificial intelligence to monitor the fish they catch, small-scale fishermen and coastal communities are increasingly turning to digital tools to help them be more sustainable and tackle climate change.
Reuters  ·  12 hours ago  ·  By Michael Taylor
Frog has lungs 'like noise-cancelling headphones', scientists say
Tree frogs essentially 'put on a pair of noise-cancelling headphones' to pick up the frequency of calls from a potential mate of the same species, US experts reveal.
Daily Mail  ·  4 hours ago  ·  By Jonathan Chadwick
The Moon Has a Comet-Like Tail. Every Month It Shoots a Beam Around Earth.
“It almost seems like a magical thing,” said one of the astronomers involved in studying the lunar phenomenon.
New York Times  ·  5 hours ago
SpaceX's biggest-ever Starship rocket nailed its landing—and then exploded | Fortune
Despite the mishap, the test is likely to signal progress for the massive vehicle.
Fortune  ·  15 hours ago
Star Swallowed by Supermassive Black Hole Sends Ghostly Particle to Earth
A high-energy particle, thought to have been sent our way by a supermassive black hole hundreds of millions of years ago, has collided with Earth and
The Epoch Times  ·  18 hours ago
NASA spots sinuous dust devil dancing over Mars dunes
A stunning view from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows how Mars can whip it good.
CNet  ·  21 minutes ago  ·  By Amanda Kooser
Why Scientists Aim To Make A Drone Nearly As Small As A Mosquito
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to match the flexibility and resilience of an insect with a more muscular generation of mini-drones.
NPR  ·  11 hours ago  ·  By NPR
TV tonight: how science could reverse the climate crisis
Scientists offer up their ideas about how we could reduce global warming. Plus the ins and outs of planning for holidays this year. Here’s what to watch this evening
The Guardian  ·  14 hours ago
Scientists discover new rocky Super-Earth planet called Gliese 486b that could host ALIEN life
Astronomers from the Max-Planck Institute used different methods of observation to discover the alien world orbiting a nearby red dwarf dwarf star 26 light years away.
Daily Mail  ·  1 hour ago  ·  By Ryan Morrison
Scientists Announce a Physical Warp Drive Is Now Possible. Seriously.
For the first time, scientists have introduced a physical model for warp drive. That means humans are one step closer to traveling at faster-than-light speeds.
Popular Mechanics  ·  16 hours ago  ·  By Caroline Delbert
Dozens of mammals including horses, dolphins and goats could catch Covid-19, study reveals
This video shows the spike protein on Covid-19 opening and closing. In its open form it is able to bind with receptors on human host cells. Researchers characterised its structure as its most similar relative in a bat coronavirus.
Daily Mail  ·  2 hours ago  ·  By Jonathan Chadwick
Dartmouth study reveals potential overlap between woolly mammoths and humans in New England
The first humans to arrive in New England may have found themselves accompanied by woolly companions, a new paper written by researchers at Dartmouth university suggests.
The Boston Globe  ·  2 hours ago
SpaceX’s latest Starship prototype performed a perfect touchdown, then exploded
The explosion happened with such force it flung the craft back up in the air
METRO  ·  11 hours ago  ·  By Jeff Parsons
'Catastrophic': UK has lost 90% of seagrass meadows, study finds
Scientists say restoring the lush habitats would boost wildlife, protect coasts and store carbon
The Guardian  ·  16 hours ago  ·  By Damian Carrington
Japanese Billionaire Looking For 8 People To Take On A Space Voyage In 2023
A Japanese billionaire is seeking eight passengers to board Elon Musk’s SpaceX flight that’s traveling to the moon in 2023
The Daily Caller  ·  23 hours ago
Minutes after a seemingly successful landing, SpaceX's Starship rocket exploded on the pad
SpaceX has flown Starship prototypes to this height three times. This was the first time the rocket landed without exploding immediately.
Business Insider  ·  21 hours ago  ·  By Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Why SpaceX's Starships Keep Blowing up As SN10 Becomes Third to Explode
Elon Musk plans to use the Starship rockets to ferry people to the Moon and Mars.
Newsweek  ·  11 hours ago
Why SpaceX’s Latest Explosion Is Still Progress, and a Lesson for Investors
Another SpaceX Starship exploded, but only after coming to rest on the launch pad after taking off, turning around, and achieving a controlled descent.
Barrons  ·  5 hours ago  ·  By Al Root
How to see Mars with the naked eye in March – and spot Orion’s Belt nearby too
YOU can try and spot Mars in the night sky this month.The Red Planet will be shining like a pinkish star a few hours after sunset.Budding stargazers w
The Sun  ·  4 hours ago  ·  By Charlotte Edwards
'Space hurricane' that rained electrons observed for the first time
Scientists observed a "space hurricane" for the first time, an enormous swirling mass of plasma in the upper atmosphere that rained electrons instead of water.
NBC News  ·  1 hour ago
Alien 'super-Earth' may offer clues about atmospheres on distant worlds
Scientists have spotted a planet orbiting a star relatively near our solar system that may offer a prime opportunity to study the atmosphere of a rocky Earth-like alien world - the type of research that could aid the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Reuters  ·  2 hours ago  ·  By Will Dunham
SpaceX Starship Nails Landing — Sort Of | The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
With Starship SN-10, SpaceX got it right — or almost right. A perfect launch with all three engines firing and soft landing before explosion.
The American Spectator  ·  5 hours ago
Watch Live: SpaceX Attempts Third High-Altitude Test of Starship
The third high-altitude test of a SpaceX Starship prototype is scheduled for Wednesday. You can watch the launch live right here. Wednesday’s launch of SN10 should happen at approximately 5:30 p.m. ET.
Gizmodo  ·  22 hours ago
Humans, not nature, are the cause of changes in Atlantic hurricane cycles, new study finds
Scientists thought the decades-long cycle of active and slower hurricane seasons was a natural pattern – but new research suggests otherwise.
CBS News  ·  1 hour ago
Limiting invasive species may be a better goal than eliminating them
Managing invasive species—not eliminating them altogether—is a better use of time and conservation resources in many cases, according to a study led by a University of Alberta biologist.
Phys.org  ·  3 hours ago  ·  By Science X staff
Scientists find three glow-in-the-dark sharks
When it comes to animal abilities that humans would love to have, being able to glow in the dark has to be near the top of the list, right beneath flight and, of course, turning your skin into camouflage like an octopus.
BGR  ·  22 hours ago  ·  By Mike Wehner
Asteroid as Big as Golden Gate Bridge Will Fly Past Earth on First Full Day of Spring
The asteroid is expected to come within 1.25 million miles of Earth, leading NASA to classify it as "potentially hazardous"
People  ·  1 hour ago
California city votes to BAN all new gas stations over climate change
California city votes to BAN all new gas stations over climate change
therightscoop.com  ·  6 hours ago
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