SpaceX loses Starship rocket stage again, but catches giant Super Heavy booster during Flight 8 launch (video)

Fate of private Athena probe unclear after lunar landing | Space Quiz! What is constantly bombarding Earth in a shower of high-energy particles from deep space? | SpaceX loses Starship, but catches Super Heavy booster Created for ceo.studentlike.spuniv@blogger.com | Web Version March 7, 2025 CONNECT WITH SPACE.COM       Something amazing every day. SIGN UP ⋅   WEBSITE The Launchpad (NASA) Fate of private Athena probe unclear after lunar landing Intuitive Machines is on the moon again -- and again there is some drama. The Houston-based company's second lunar lander, named Athena, touched down at the Mons Mouton region of the moon's south pole yesterday, but t wasn't a picture-perfect landing. While Athena is sending data home to Earth and generating power on the lunar surface, the spacecraft does not seem to have landed fully upright as planned. Learn more Space Quiz! What is constantly bombarding Earth in a shower of high-energy particles from deep space? Learn the answer here! Solar flares Cosmic rays Aurora Ozone (SpaceX) SpaceX loses Starship, but catches Super Heavy booster Starship's eighth flight was a lot like its seventh. Seven minutes after liftoff yesterday, Starship's huge first-stage booster, known as Super Heavy, returned to Starbase for a dramatic catch by the launch tower's "chopstick" arms. SpaceX lost contact with Ship about nine minutes into the flight, however, and it detonated shortly thereafter. Watch the replay Skywatching (Aumphotography via Getty Images) 7 fascinating facts about lunar eclipses On the night of March 13-14, a "blood moon" total lunar eclipse will be visible from North and South America, Western Europe, far Western Africa, and New Zealand. To prepare for this stunning event, here are seven interesting facts about lunar eclipses. Read More Spaceflight (Lockheed Martin Space) Lunar Trailblazer: Low on power, spinning out of control NASA's new water-scouting moon orbiter has been in trouble ever since its Feb. 26 launch atop a SpaceX rocket, but things are looking more dire as the spacecraft runs low on power while spinning in space. Ground controllers for the NASA/Caltech-led mission, called Lunar Trailblazer, have valiantly tried to reestablish communications with the small satellite over the last week, but the probe is still out of contact. Read More Science & Astronomy (NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI)) Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected. If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks would be just the second example of three gravitationally bound space rocks found in the Kuiper Belt, the doughnut-shaped region of icy bodies that lurks out beyond the orbit of Neptune. The discovery could also challenge our understanding of how Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) form. Read More SpaceX (Stefanie Waldek) Fiery Starship debris rain down over The Bahamas (video) "The light show was completely silent - we didn't hear anything. But the reflection on the water from the burning debris was quite pretty!" Read More Search for Life (Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Did DNA-busting radiation impacted evolution on Earth? Simulating a supernova with computer models, researchers suggest that the radiation from this stellar explosion pummeled the our planet for around 100,000 years after the event. That radiation was potentially strong enough to break apart DNA. Read More   Sign Up  |    Update Profile  |    Unsubscribe Privacy Policy  |    Cookies Policy  |    Terms and Conditions CONTACT US: FEEDBACK  |    ADVERTISE Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036