Space Perspective's 'Spaceship Neptune' balloon flew to the edge of space on its first unmanned test flight. It lifted off from a ship in the Gulf of Mexico. <b<br/>r/>

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SpaceX's CRS-31 Dragon spacecraft is scheduled docked with the International Space Station.<b<br/>r/>

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 24 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.



The Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff as planned, touching down on the SpaceX...

SpaceX's Launch Pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida has been fitted with a chute for astronauts to use in case of emergency.<b<br/>r/>

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See Boom Supersonic's "refined" design of the Overture aircraft in this animated explainer. <b<br/>r/>

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Weighing 2,000 pounds and with characteristic mustache-shaped horns forming what's known as a "boss," this is one tough animal you wouldn't want to mess with.

While New York City traditionally votes Democratic, Staten Island stands out as the city’s reliably red borough. This election, 65% of Staten Island voters supported Trump—the largest margin he’s seen in the area. We spoke to locals to...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured 19 spiral galaxies "face-on" in near- and mid-infrared. The images "show stars, gas, and dust on the smallest scales ever observed beyond our own galaxy," according to...

Vice President Kamala Harris faced numerous obstacles in her presidential campaign.Launching only in July, her run struggled to address voters’ core concerns on issues like the economy and immigration. She also faced a loss of support...

Take a tour of the Hydra I galaxy cluster. A galaxy in the region, NGC 3312, is "losing cold gas as it moves through the hot gas within the cluster," according to the European Southern Observatory.



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New York reacts to Trump's election winSource: The Independent

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an X4.5-class solar flare. See views in multiple wavelengths here.



Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and the AIA, EVE, and HMI science teams, helioviewer.org | edited by Space.com's...

Polling guru Nate Silver has revealed his final prediction model for the 2024 presidential election – and has concluded the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is “literally closer than a coin flip.”In Silver’s model, Harris won...

Kamala Harris's 2024 campaign for the US presidency

Text messages from political campaigns have gotten... unhinged... right?Compared to traditional forms of political messaging, such a mailers or email, a text feels urgent, meaning campaign teams are favoring them more and more.This is...

SpaceX launched Starship on Integrated Flight Test 3 from their Starbase facility in South Texas. SpaceX has conducted static fire test for the next test flight. <b<br/>r/>

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