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Verge Science is here to bring you the most up-to-date space news and analysis, whether it’s about the latest findings from NASA or comprehensive coverage of the next SpaceX rocket launch to the International Space Station. We’ll take you inside the discoveries of new exoplanets, space weather, space policy, and the booming commercial space industry.

This puking robot has a purpose: making rocket fuel safely

By James Vincent
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SpaceX will try again to catch a Falcon 9 nose cone during this morning’s launch

By Loren Grush
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FCC approves SpaceX’s ambitious satellite internet plans

By Nick Statt
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How to track the spiraling Chinese space station as it falls from orbit

By Loren Grush
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Astronomers use artificial intelligence to spot 6,000 new craters on the Moon

By James Vincent
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Rare galaxy found without any dark matter

By Loren Grush
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NASA delays the launch of its flagship space telescope again — this time until May 2020

By Loren Grush
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The UK might be kicked out of EU plans to build an alternative to GPS

By James Vincent
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China’s spiraling space station will plunge to Earth in about a week

By Loren Grush
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How two astronauts helped shoot Darren Aronofsky’s new TV series from space

By Alessandra Potenza
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This video is a beautiful reminder to look up at the Moon

By Alessandra Potenza
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Congress is giving NASA more money than it requested to build a second launch platform

By Loren Grush
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Elon Musk has removed Tesla and SpaceX’s Facebook pages after Twitter challenge

By Loren Grush
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Rocket Lab’s disco ball satellite has plunged back to Earth — and some aren’t sad to see it go

By Loren Grush
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What NASA loses without a permanent leader

By Loren Grush
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Watch three astronauts launch to the International Space Station this afternoon

By Loren Grush

Ideas for new NASA mission can now include spacecraft powered by plutonium

By Loren Grush
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NASA wants your help checking its satellites — so send in your cloud pics

By Alessandra Potenza
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No, space did not permanently alter 7 percent of Scott Kelly’s DNA

By Loren Grush
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How Stephen Hawking’s biggest achievement linked opposing worlds of physics

By Loren Grush
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NASA could look to Star Wars for building better space-bound robots for repairs

By Chaim Gartenberg
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Trump’s ‘Space Force’ sounds a lot like the Space Corps his administration didn’t want

By Loren Grush
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How uncomfortable space suits took a toll on the first Americans who went to space

By Angela Chen

I flew with the next NASA spacecraft that will land on Mars

How to get a lander from Colorado to California

By Loren Grush
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Elon Musk still thinks a Mars colony will save us from a future dark age

By Nick Statt
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Why people still worry about the falling Chinese space station — despite the low odds

By Loren Grush
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Elon Musk and the creator of Westworld made an inspirational trailer for the Falcon Heavy launch

By Bryan Bishop
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The FCC says a space startup launched four tiny satellites into orbit without permission

By Loren Grush
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Watch the formation of the universe and Earth in this cool time-lapse video

By Andrew Liptak
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If Trump truly loves the private space industry, his policy should show it

By Loren Grush
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Wanted at Blue Origin: an astronaut experience manager to ‘help delight customers’

By Loren Grush
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NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds deep winds and patterned cyclones on Jupiter

By Loren Grush
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