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SpaceX, Elon Musk's spaceflight company, launched its Starship rocket from the coast of South Texas on Saturday, a mammoth vehicle that could alter the future of space transportation and help NASA return...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its Starship rocket from the coast of South Texas just after 7 a.m. Central time on Saturday, a mammoth vehicle that could alter the future of space transportation...

SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, lifted off for a second test flight on Saturday and reached an altitude of about 90 miles above Earth before engineers lost contact with...

When the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993, most of the animals he had imported as pets — zebras, giraffes, kangaroos and rhinoceroses — died or were transferred to...

SpaceX’s “fail fast, learn faster” mentality means that the company does not expect everything to go right during a test flight.But sometimes a failure is more edifying than just brainstorming everything that...

On any given night, far from bright city lights, there’s a chance that you’ll see a beautiful streak shoot across the sky as a meteor flies overhead. But on special dates scattered...

Regulators in Britain on Thursday approved the first treatment derived from CRISPR, the revolutionary gene-editing method. Called Casgevy, the treatment is intended to cure sickle-cell disease and a related condition, beta thalassemia.The...

On April 20, SpaceX conducted the first full flight test of its Starship vehicle that is to one day carry astronauts to the moon and perhaps colonists to Mars. The brief flight...

SpaceX is preparing for the second test flight of Starship, the giant rocket that is being built to carry NASA’s astronauts to the surface of the moon and Elon Musk’s ambitions to...

A Moment That Sums It Up: 3:46 p.m.The millionth vet joined the database on the afternoon of Nov. 11. Employees who had waited a dozen years for this moment wept.As the goal...