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Happy Thursday, space fans.
As we near the end of another week, we have some wild new plans from SpaceX to share. The company has proposed increasing their launch cadence from their Starbase site in South Texas to go from 25 Starship launches per year to a whopping 456. What do you think about this proposed extreme shift? On the NASA side of spaceflight, we got some surprising news as NASA astronaut and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch announced that she is leaving the active astronaut corps to become the agency's acting deputy chief engineer. She is the last of the four Artemis II astronauts to step down from the astronaut corps. Over on the astronomy side of things, scientists are now investigating to see whether or not hypernovas, the hypothesized biggest explosions in the entire universe, might be real after all.
Check out what's big in space below:
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SpaceX's CRS-35 cargo Dragon will rendezvous with the International Space Station today (Oct. 15) after a two-day chase. Here's how to watch it live.
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Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch will become NASA's acting deputy chief engineer on Nov. 1. All four Artemis II crewmates have now stepped away from active spaceflight duties.
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A decade after Elon Musk publicly unveiled plans for the fully reusable megarocket, Starship has reached orbit. How far away is Mars?
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The Northern and Southern Taurid meteor showers bring slow-moving shooting stars and occasional brilliant fireballs to the night sky. Here's when and how to see them in 2026.
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The discovery of surprising molecules of methanol and associated maser activity has expanded the inventory of the chemical starter kit that builds planets in young star systems.
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Auroras paint the International Space Station purple in new iPhone photo from orbit.
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And that's it for our space update today.
We were certainly surprised to see Christina Koch step down from active astronaut duty after the other three astronauts who flew aboard Artemis II also stepped down. That means that, just a few short months after that mission, its entire crew is no longer a part of the active astronaut corps. Wild. Space is always full of surprises. Today we also saw a SpaceX cargo ship deliver 6,000 lbs of cargo — everything from medical supplies to scientific eqiupment, food, clothing and more — to the International Space Station.
Coming up, we are going right from the Orionids meteor shower, made up of burning debris from Halley's Comet, into the Taurids as we get closer to Halloween. Keep an eye out for Halloween fireballs, and if you spot any, let us know! And speaking of spooky sights, Ryan Coogler, who created the smash-hit horror film "Sinners" is going to be leading a new iteration of "The X-Files." Will you check it out? To follow closely along and stay up to date with all things space, you can now get Space.com right in the palm of your hand with our new app available now on iOS and Android.
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Chelsea Gohd
Content Manager, Space.com
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