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'For All Mankind's' Ruby Cruz and Ines Asserson on wearing those 'clunky' cool spacesuits and training with a Green Beret (interview)
By Jeff Spry published
"The spacesuits are like real spacesuits! They're so complicated and much heavier than you'd ever expect."

Starship V3 from space: Satellite snaps amazing photo of SpaceX megarocket on the pad
By Mike Wall published
A sharp-eyed satellite captured an amazing photo of SpaceX's first Starship V3 megarocket on the pad Thursday (May 21), just before it was supposed to lift off.

Don't wait for the full moon: Here's when the moon looks best through a telescope
By Joe Rao published
Long before the full moon rises, shifting sunlight transforms the lunar surface into one of the sky's best telescope targets.

Shakeup at JPL? Control over iconic NASA center could change for 1st time in nearly 100 years
By Chelsea Gohd published
This is part of an even-larger "restructuring" at NASA.

'The Mandalorian and Grogu' is better viewed as a 'Star Wars' origin story for Rotta the Hutt
By Sergio Pereira published
Forget Baby Yoda, we want to see more big buff slug adventures in our Star Wars.

An ancient solar storm left clues in tree rings and a famous poet's diary: 'Red lights in the northern sky'
By Keith Cooper published
A Japanese poet wrote in his diary that "red lights" appeared in the sky over Kyoto. An analysis of tree rings suggests a powerful solar storm created the sight.

What time is SpaceX's Starship V3 launch today? (Starship Flight 12 timeline)
By Tariq Malik last updated
SpaceX will launch its first Starship V3 vehicle on the Flight 12 test flight on Thursday (May 21).

Rocket Lab launches private Japanese Earth-observing satellite to orbit (video)
By Mike Wall last updated
Rocket Lab launched an Earth-observing radar satellite for the Japanese company Synspective early Friday morning (May 22).
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