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Eric Berger Ars Technica

A Glowing Metal Ring Crashed to Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From

It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal”...

Elon Musk Calls Out NASA’s Moon Ambitions: ‘We’re Going Straight to Mars’

Although SpaceX founder Elon Musk is known for outspokenness and controversial comments on his social media site...

How NASA Might Change Under Donald Trump

Although the details remain in flux, the transition team reviewing NASA and its activities has begun to...

A Spacecraft Is About to Fly Into the Sun’s Atmosphere for the First Time

Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore.Sure, the spacecraft got some attention when...

Starship’s Next Launch Could Be Just Two Weeks Away

Less than a month has passed since the historic fifth flight of SpaceX’s Starship, during which the...

China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship

When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade...

An International Space Station Leak Is Getting Worse—and Keeping NASA Up at Night

US space officials do not like to talk about the perils of flying astronauts on the aging...

The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride

A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the...