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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a commercial crew of four lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Bitcoin investor buys an entire SpaceX flight for the ultimate polar adventure

A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South poles.
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This photo provided by Isar Aerospace shows a successfully completed test flight of its orbital launch vehicle called Spectrum from Norway on Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Isar Aerospace via AP)

A private European aerospace startup completes the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle

March 30
A man walks next to a destroyed car and damaged buildings at the site that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday March 28, 2025.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

How will the latest strikes between Israel and Lebanon affect a tenuous ceasefire?

March 28
An undated image from NASA’s Webb Space Telescope shows an outflow from a nearby still-forming star in infrared light, with a spiral galaxy off in the distance. (NASA via AP)

Webb Space Telescope captures a star in the making and a galaxy far, far away

March 24
In a photo provided by Isar Aerospace, Photo Wingmen Media, Isar Aerospace Launch Vehicle "Spectrum" is transported to a launchpad at Andoya Spaceport in Nordmela, on Andøya island, Norway, on March 10, 2025. (Isar Aerospace, Photo Wingmen Media via AP)

A European startup scrubs its attempt to launch an orbital rocket on its first test flight

March 24

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This photo provided by the European Space Agency shows various galaxies imaged by the Euclid mission. (European Space Agency via AP)

European telescope studying the dark universe unveils new images of distant galaxies

March 19
In this photo provided by NASA, Boeing Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams pose for a portrait inside the vestibule between the forward port on the International Space Station's Harmony module and Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on June 13, 2024. (NASA via AP, File)

Who are the NASA astronauts who have been stuck in space for 9 months?

March 18
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a crew of four aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifts off on a mission to the International Space Station lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday, March 14, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

SpaceX launches a new crew to the space station to replace NASA’s stuck astronauts

March 15
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight ends with another explosion

March 7
This illustration provided by NASA depicts Voyager 1. (NASA via AP, File)

NASA powers down two instruments on twin Voyager spacecraft to save power

March 5
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship sits on the pad after it's test flight from Starbase was scrubbed in Boca Chica, Texas, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Last-minute problems with SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship forces delay of latest test flight

March 4
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Private company rockets toward the moon in the latest rush of lunar landing attempts

February 27
This image provided by Blue Origin shows New Shepard seconds after takeoff in West Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. (Blue Origin via AP)

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin mimics the moon’s gravity for NASA experiments during spaceflight

February 4
The H3 Launch Vehicle No. 5, carrying the Quasi-Zenith Satellite "Michibiki No. 6," lifts off at a launch pad in Tanegashima Space Center in Tanegashima, southern Japan, Sunday Feb. 2, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan launches a navigation satellite on a new flagship rocket for an improved positioning system

February 3
This photo provided by Firefly Aerospace shows Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captures the Blue Marble while in Earth orbit on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Firefly Aerospace via AP)

A private US spacecraft headed to the moon captures a glorious view of Earth

January 24
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

SpaceX launch accident likely caused by fire that sent trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean

January 17
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship launches for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

SpaceX loses spacecraft after catching rocket booster at the launch pad in latest Starship test

January 17
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 36 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket reaches orbit on first test flight

January 16
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 39A with a payload of a pair of lunar landers at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

2 private lunar landers head toward the moon in a roundabout journey

January 15
This photo, provided by the Moonhouse project and taken in September 2024 at the ispace facilities in Japan, shows a little red model house created by artist Mikael Genberg and scheduled to launch into space on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (ispace mission 2 via AP)

Mission to moon carries tiny red Swedish home to space

January 14
Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is seen on Launch Complex 36 shortly before the launch attempt was scrubbed at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Monday, Jan. 13, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Jeff Bezos’ space company tries again to launch massive new rocket after last-minute postponement

January 14
This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. (European Space Agency via AP)

Spacecraft buzzes Mercury’s north pole and beams back stunning photos

January 9
This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. It's designed to take solar punishment like never before, thanks to its revolutionary heat shield that's capable of withstanding 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,370 degrees Celsius). (Steve Gribben/Johns Hopkins APL/NASA via AP, File)

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe survives close brush with the sun’s scorching surface

December 27, 2024
The Kairos No. 2 rocket, a Japanese commercial rocket carrying a set of satellites, is launched from Space Port Kii in Kushimoto town, western Japan Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japanese space startup aborts 2nd satellite launch attempt minutes after liftoff

December 18, 2024
FILE - International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi during a meeting with the Japanese government in Tokyo Thursday, March 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool, File)

IAEA chief: Iran is poised to ‘quite dramatically’ increase stockpile of near weapons-grade uranium

December 7, 2024
FILE - This file photo provided by NASA shows, from left, NASA Astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Canadian Space Agency Astronaut Jeremy Hansen at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, March 29, 2023. (Josh Valcarcel/NASA via AP)

NASA pushes back astronaut flights to the moon again

December 5, 2024
SpaceX's mega rocket Starship lifts off for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket, but aborts attempt to catch booster with mechanical arms

November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump listens to Elon Musk at the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024 in Boca Chica, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Pool via AP)

Trump and Musk solidify their bond with Texas trip for rocket launch

November 20, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump poses for a photo with Dana White, Kid Rock and Elon Musk at UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump appears to be planning to attend SpaceX ‘Starship’ launch scheduled for Tuesday in Texas

November 18, 2024
FILE - In this May 13, 2019, photo, River, left, and Timon, both rhesus macaques, sit in an outdoor enclosure at Primates Inc., in Westfield, Wis. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger, File)

Monkeys that escaped a lab are a species used for human research since the 1800s

November 9, 2024
In this image from live video released by Roscosmos, a Soyuz rocket lifts off from a launch site in Vostochny, far eastern Russia to carry satellites, including two built by Iran, into orbit on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Roscosmos via AP)

Russian rocket launches Iranian satellites into orbit as Moscow and Tehran expand ties

November 5, 2024
A new flagship H3 rocket carrying a defense ministry communications satellite is launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Kagoshima prefecture, southern Japan Monday, Nov. 4, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan successfully launches a defense satellite carried by a new flagship H3 rocket

November 4, 2024
This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a damaged large building at the Revolutionary Guard's Shahroud Space Center in Semnan province, Iran, Tuesday Oct. 29, 2024. Israel's attack on Iran likely damaged a base run by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that builds ballistic missiles and launches rockets as part of its own space program, satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press on Tuesday showed. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Satellite photos show Israeli strike likely hit important Iran Revolutionary Guard missile base

October 30, 2024
The launch pad for the Shenzhou-19 mission, left, is seen during day break at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, northwest China Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China says it’s ready to launch the next crew to its orbiting space station early Wednesday

October 29, 2024
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with a NASA spacecraft bound for Jupiter lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center Monday, Oct. 14, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa in search of the right conditions for life

October 14, 2024
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