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Going supersonic! NASA's X-59 jet breaks sound barrier for the 1st time
By Mike Wall published
NASA's X-59 jet broke the sound barrier for the first time on Friday (June 5), reaching a top speed of about Mach 1.1.

NASA's dead Mars orbiter MAVEN will crash into the Red Planet in the next 100 years. It's not the only probe in the Mars morgue
By Mike Wall published
NASA just declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after a dozen productive years circling the Red Planet. Here's the fate that awaits the probe.

Like 'the loss of a loved one': NASA's Mars orbiter MAVEN is officially dead after months of radio silence
By Josh Dinner last updated
NASA has declared its MAVEN Mars orbiter dead after Red Planet anomaly led to months of lost contact.

Massive boom over northeastern US was a meteor explosion as powerful as 300 tons of TNT, NASA confirms
By Elizabeth Howell published
Footage from a satellite confirmed that a May 30 sonic boom heard over the northeastern US was from a meteor, NASA stated.

NASA's X-59 jet is ready to break the sound barrier for the 1st time this month
By Brett Tingley published
NASA's X-59 jet is on the verge of finally breaking the sound barrier as the agency looks forward to the aircraft's first supersonic flight this month.

'For All Mankind' star Wrenn Schmidt on her character's journey from NASA's mission control to the slammer (interview)
By Jeff Spry published
‘She listens to Dolly Parton now. She’s exposed to all kinds of things being in jail, because she’s got nothing but time.’

NASA is hatching a 'fast-paced plan' to boost this space telescope. But first, they'll have to find it
By Mike Wall published
NASA is working hard to predict where in Earth orbit its Swift space telescope will be this fall, so that a private spacecraft can meet up with the observatory and boost its altitude.

James Webb Space Telescope discovers a black hole that formed before its host galaxy. Scientists aren't sure how
By Robert Lea published
"It's a paradigm shift, a total revisiting of the classical scenarios of how black holes form and grow."

What's next for SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after its historic debut flight?
By Mike Wall published
SpaceX's "V3" Starship megarocket did pretty well on its debut flight last week. What's next for the powerful next-gen vehicle?

FAA grounds SpaceX's Starship V3 megarocket after Flight 12 'mishap'
By Mike Wall published
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has declared the debut flight of SpaceX's Starship V3 vehicle a mishap and is requiring an investigation before the megarocket can fly again.
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