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Artist's impression of a city on Mars, which SpaceX wants to help establish with its Starship transportation system.

Colonizing Mars may require humanity to tweak its DNA

By Mike Wall

Genetic enhancement could allow humanity to push surprisingly far out into the final frontier.

A Boeing image shows the X-37B in its capsule before launch.

Why a microwave-beam experiment will launch aboard the Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane

By Rafi Letzter

There's a microwave power experiment heading to space Saturday (May 16) aboard the Air Force's secretive X-37B spaceplane. Researchers hope it could lead to a new global power source.

Spaceflight

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket seen here, carrying the Iridium-8 mission in 2019, will launch on its fifth flight to carry 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida on June 3, 2020.

SpaceX to launch 60 Starlink satellites for megaconstellation tonight. Here's how to watch.

By Tariq Malik

SpaceX will launch its next batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit tonight (June 3) after two weeks of weather delays and the company's historic first astronaut flight.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 60 Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on June 3, 2020.

Replay! SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites

By Space.com Staff

SpaceX will launch another batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket today (June 3) 9:25 p.m. EDT (0125 GMT on June 4). Watch it live here!

Science & Astronomy

Examples of Einstein ring gravitational lenses, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomers turn back time to solve Einstein ring mystery

By Chelsea Gohd

Astronomers time traveled through archives of data to spot an object that made history in the 1980s and solve a long-standing cosmic mystery.

Artist's illustration of NASA's Mars 2020 rover Perseverance exploring the Red Planet. Perseverance's three-week launch window opens on July 17, 2020.

Life on Mars? Meet the new rover built to give us the answer

By Roger Wiens

NASA's Curiosity rover has shown that Mars was habitable billions of years ago. And NASA is about to launch another rover, called Perseverance, to look for signs of Red Planet life.

Search For Life

Life on Mars? Meet the new rover built to give us the answer

By Roger Wiens

NASA's Curiosity rover has shown that Mars was habitable billions of years ago. And NASA is about to launch another rover, called Perseverance, to look for signs of Red Planet life.

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in southwest China's Guizhou Province.

Ready, SETI, go: Is there a race to contact E.T.?

By Leonard David

Researchers using China's huge new FAST radio telescope are piecing together a technological strategy to carry out a major and sweeping search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

The dark streaks on some Martian slopes known as recurring slope lineae — imaged here by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — may be caused by salty liquid water, some scientists think.

Mars may be wetter than we thought (but still not that habitable)

By Mike Wall

Mars is wetter than previously thought, but not in a way that boosts its life-hosting potential, a new study suggests.

Skywatching

The full Strawberry Moon rises over Manhattan in this photo taken by John Entwistle on June 9, 2017.

June full moon 2020: The 'Strawberry Moon' brings a penumbral lunar eclipse

By Jesse Emspak

The full moon of June, also called the Strawberry Moon, will occur June 5 at 3:12 p.m. EDT (1912 GMT). That same day, a penumbral lunar eclipse will be visible in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Best night sky events of June 2020 (stargazing maps)

By Chris Vaughan

See what's up in the night sky for June 2020, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

This SpaceX map shows the orbital path of the Demo-2 Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station. They launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020.

You can see SpaceX's 1st Crew Dragon with astronauts in the night sky tonight. Here's how.

By Joe Rao

If the skies are clear this evening (May 30), observers across the central and northern United States and southern Canada could get an opportunity to see Crew Dragon move across their local skies.

Entertainment

A blue and pink sequined dinosaur floats for the first time on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule after entering Earth orbit. The doll, chosen by the crew's sons, served as the zero-g indicator.

SpaceX 'stowaway' revealed by crew as sons' dinosaur toy 'Tremor'

By Robert Z. Pearlman

A stowaway aboard SpaceX's first mission to launch astronauts to the International Space Station may have set a new record — the most sequins to enter Earth orbit.

How to watch SpaceX's historic 1st Demo-2 astronaut launch live online

By Tariq Malik

There's many options to watch SpaceX's historic Demo-2 astronaut launch on TV, cable news and — of course — online. Here's how.

Yes, space fans, there are rockets in Netflix's "Space Force."

Netflix's 'Space Force' is everything we hoped it would be

By Chelsea Gohd

Netflix's new "Space Force" series is the inside joke that went too far: and we love it.

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