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