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SpaceX Starship launches nail-biting Flight 4 test of the world's most powerful rocket (video, photos)

SpaceX launches 4th flight test of Starship megarocket | NASA astronaut put Starliner to the test (exclusive) | Midnight sun: What it is and how to see it

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June 6, 2024

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SpaceX launches 4th flight test of Starship megarocket

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The fourth test flight of the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built is in the books, and what a dramatic and nail-biting trip for SpaceX it was. SpaceX launched its Starship megarocket for the fourth time ever today (June 6) at 8:50 a.m. EDT (1250 GMT), sending the 400-foot-tall (122 meters) vehicle aloft from its Starbase site near Boca Chica Beach in South Texas atop a thundering pillar of fire.

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NASA astronaut put Starliner to the test (exclusive)

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Shortly after shepherding the first Boeing Starliner to a space port, NASA astronaut Bob Hines got a special assignment. Hines was one of the astronauts working in the International Space Station for the historic first berthing of an uncrewed Boeing Starliner spacecraft on May 22, 2022. Hines, who flew on SpaceX Crew-4, returned to Earth from half a year in space that October, to learn that NASA wanted him to help see Starliner through its first crewed mission.

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Skywatching

Midnight sun: What it is and how to see it

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The midnight sun is a natural summertime phenomenon in which the sun never sets below the horizon, not even at midnight. While this may sound like an otherworldly scenario, for those living in the polar regions, it's just another summer's day, albeit one that never ends.

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Spaceflight

Watch Boeing's Starliner arrive at ISS today

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Boeing's Starliner capsule will reach the International Space Station today (June 6) on its first-ever crewed mission, and you can watch the action live. Starliner is expected to dock with the orbiting lab today around 12:15 p.m. EDT (1615 GMT) on its historic astronaut debut, which is known as Crew Flight Test (CFT). You can watch the rendezvous live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, beginning at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT).

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Science & Astronomy

Telescope removed from hub on Hawaiian volcano

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For the first time, a telescope on the Hawaiian volcano Maunakea has been fully decommissioned - it was dismantled, removed, and its site was restored to previous conditions. The effort comes under an agreement between the University of Hawaii and the Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority, designed to smooth tensions over the construction of a new telescope on the mountain: The Thirty Meter Telescope.

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SpaceX

SpaceX congratulates Boeing on crewed Starliner launch

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SpaceX bigwigs celebrated the arrival of a new American capsule on the human-spaceflight scene today (June 5). That spacecraft is Boeing's Starliner, which is carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams toward the International Space Station (ISS) after launching this morning atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. "Congratulations on a successful launch!" SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said via X.

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Search for Life

NASA finds 'Phoenix' planet surviving star's bombardment

(Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins University)

A strange planet discovered with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has astronomers confused. Despite getting relentlessly bombarded with radiation from its red giant parent star, the world has, against all odds, hung on to its atmosphere. It is also smaller, older and hotter than scientists thought possible for such a planet.

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Entertainment

New 'Alien: Romulus' trailer unleashes the facehuggers

(20th Century Studios)

Following a stunning teaser trailer released back in March, Alien: Romulus is kicking things up a notch with its second trailer, which is full of facehuggers, acid blood and zero-gravity thrills.

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