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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.

Three countries are due to reach Mars in the next two weeks

Another SpaceX Starship nails clean test flight, but explodes on landing

Small launch startup Astra to go public at $2.1 billion valuation

SpaceX announces first ‘all-civilian’ mission to space

NASA delays moon lander awards as Biden team mulls moonshot program

After aborted SLS hot-fire test, NASA and Boeing will try, try again

Elon Musk’s SpaceX violated its launch license in explosive Starship test, triggering an FAA probe

Elon Musk’s shot at Amazon flares monthslong fight over billionaires’ orbital real estate

Axiom names first private crew paying $55 million for a trip to the ISS

SpaceX launches record batch of satellites in first in-house rideshare mission

SpaceX is sparring with a Texas oil company to drill for natural gas

As parting message, Jim Bridenstine leaves Artemis program ‘in good shape’ for Biden’s NASA

Engineer and professor Moriba Jah gestures at a graphical visualizer showing tens of thousands of satellites and space debris in orbit around the Earth
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Why the risk of orbital collisions is skyrocketing

Congestion in space could cause big problems on Earth

Virgin’s rocket reaches orbit for the first time, deploys satellites

Critical NASA rocket test ends early with a shutdown

Watch NASA test fire its massive new rocket

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

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

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

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

China returns sample of lunar dirt to Earth

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

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

Japan confirms its asteroid mission returned samples of space rocks

The pandemic couldn’t keep the space industry down

Virgin Galactic aborts first powered spaceflight from New Mexico spaceport

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

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

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

SpaceX has launched a second Dragon capsule to the space station

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

Japan’s asteroid sample return mission lands in Australian desert