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Verge Science is here to bring you the most up-to-date space news and analysis, whether it’s about the latest findings from NASA or comprehensive coverage of the next SpaceX rocket launch to the International Space Station. We’ll take you inside the discoveries of new exoplanets, space weather, space policy, and the booming commercial space industry.

The ashes of Scotty from Star Trek are aboard the International Space Station

By Kim Lyons

Members of the US Space Force will now be called ‘Guardians’

By Ian Carlos Campbell

NASA will fly Orion deep-space crew capsule ‘as is,’ despite failed component

By Loren Grush
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A Canadian astronaut will fly around the Moon on the first crewed mission of NASA’s new rocket

By Ian Carlos Campbell

China returns sample of lunar dirt to Earth

By Loren Grush
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Amazon’s Project Kuiper reveals design of antennas customers will use for internet-from-space constellation

By Loren Grush
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Startup Astra reaches space for the first time — but barely misses orbit

By Loren Grush
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Japan confirms its asteroid mission returned samples of space rocks

By Loren Grush
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The pandemic couldn’t keep the space industry down

By Loren Grush

Virgin Galactic aborts first powered spaceflight from New Mexico spaceport

By Loren Grush
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SpaceX flies Starship prototype rocket to highest altitude yet — but doesn’t stick the landing

By Loren Grush
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At his last Space Council meeting, Mike Pence announces new cadre of lunar astronauts

By Loren Grush

Watch SpaceX fly a prototype of its Starship rocket to its highest altitude yet

By Loren Grush
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SpaceX has launched a second Dragon capsule to the space station

By Loren Grush

China’s Chang’e 5 completes docking mission on its way back to Earth

By Kim Lyons

Japan’s asteroid sample return mission lands in Australian desert

By Loren Grush

Drone footage shows the shocking collapse of the Arecibo Observatory

The 900-ton platform came crashing down on Arecibo

By Loren Grush

China’s Chang’e 5 mission lands on the Moon

By Loren Grush
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Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapses as engineers feared

By Loren Grush
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Component failure in NASA’s deep-space crew capsule could take months to fix

By Loren Grush
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SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 rocket on its seventh trip to space

By Loren Grush

China launches ambitious mission to bring back samples from the Moon

By Loren Grush
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SpaceX engineers holding a Reddit AMA on Starlink’s Better than Nothing beta

By Kim Lyons

NASA to launch satellite to track rising sea levels

By Justine Calma

Rocket Lab successfully brings its rocket back to Earth underneath a parachute

By Loren Grush

Facing collapse, the famed Arecibo Observatory will be demolished

By Loren Grush
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European Vega rocket fails for the second time during launch in the last two years

By Loren Grush

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon docks crew of four to the International Space Station

By Loren Grush
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SpaceX Crew-1 team harnesses the Force by bringing Baby Yoda with them to space

By Loren Grush
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SpaceX successfully launches second crew to space on first operational mission

Four astronauts are now on their way to the space station

By Loren Grush
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How to watch SpaceX’s first operational Crew Dragon mission to space

By Loren Grush

What to expect from SpaceX’s Crew-1 launch to the space station

By Loren Grush
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