SpaceX received federal environmental approval for Starship launches from Kennedy Space Center, paving the way for up to 1 ...

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Scientists detected a lithium spike nearly 60 miles above Earth and traced it to a Falcon 9 rocket re-entry, raising concerns.

For the first time ever, scientists have observed in near real time a cloud of air pollution created as a SpaceX rocket burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

When part of a SpaceX rocket re-entered Earth's atmosphere exactly a year ago, it created a spectacuglar fireball that ...

Frequent deployment of satellites and re-entries by the rockets that deploy them might pose a risk to the Earth's upper atmosphere, a study indicates.

This is the first observational evidence that re-entering space debris leaves a detectable, human-caused chemical fingerprint ...

The Falcon 9 rocket can resume launching, the Federal Aviation Administration said, clearing the way for a Saturday liftoff at Vandenberg Space Force Base. The two-stage rocket built by SpaceX will ...

If humanity truly hopes to colonize the solar system, it must overcome a challenge arguably greater than any technological hurdle: human reproduction beyond Earth. The idea may sound like science ...

"Understanding how different materials behave as they burn up could help engineers design satellites that fully disintegrate, leaving nothing behind in orbit or in the atmosphere." When you purchase ...

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