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SpaceX’s fully fueled Starship and Super Heavy booster during the first launch attempt Monday, April 17. Credit: SpaceX

Elon Musk, SpaceX’s founder and CEO, did his best to set low expectations heading into the first test flight of the gargantuan Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket this week.

Imagery from satellites operated by Maxar Technologies has provided insight into the damage caused by fighting between rival military factions in Sudan.

Rocket Lab plans to launch a mission with a pre-flown engine later this year, taking a big step toward its goal of rocket reusability.

China's Shenzhou 15 astronauts have completed the fourth and final spacewalk of their six-month-long mission.

In a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 19, the director of the Pentagon's new UFO office shot down hopes that the U.S. government has evidence that aliens have visited Earth.

A museum dedicated to the history of Texas aviation now has a "space" devoted to flight even higher than the state's skies. The Lone Star Flight Museum in Houston opened its Space Gallery.

SpaceX is working "around the clock" on a variety of issues ahead of the first planned space launch of its huge Starship vehicle, Elon Musk said.

A company behind a NASA mission is capping off its first six months with an experimental cider. Advanced Space and Stem Ciders are releasing CAPSTONE, a hoppy cider celebrating a spacecraft.

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The BetaFPV Cetus Lite FPV Kit is incredibly easy to fly alongside offering a great introduction to using FPV goggles at a competitive price.

North Korean state media announced Wednesday (April 19) that the country has built its first spy satellite and is preparing it for launch.

The first trailer for Disney's new '80s-themed science fiction movie "Crater" has arrived.

A satellite caught a view of SpaceX's Starship ready on its launch pad for its first-ever launch to space.

The Creality Sermoon V1 Pro offers plug-and-play printing with some fancy features, but you pay a premium for them.

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin helped relocate a large radiator outside of the International Space Station, completing a spacewalk that had been twice delayed.

The new moon occurs just after midnight on Thursday (April 20), marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims across the globe, while also signaling the end of a rare type of eclipse.

The final chapter of The Mandalorian season 3 plays it safe to deliver a classic Star Wars conclusion and to take some weight off Din Djarin’s shoulders.

Watch our live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-2 mission at 9:47 a.m. EDT (1347 GMT) on April 19 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. Follow us on Twitter.

Delays in Europe's next-generation launch vehicle, the Ariane 6, are causing the European Commission to seek alternatives for the countries' access to orbit.

A rare hybrid eclipse sweeps across the surface of Earth on April 20, appearing as a total eclipse, annular eclipse or transitioning between both, depending on one's vantage point.

The Euclid satellite embarked on the next leg of the 1.5 million km long journey to space from where it will unlock the mysteries of the dark Universe.