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Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to send civilians into low-Earth orbit this year. Virgin Galactic is training space travellers. Companies aim to open hotels in space, and offer space day trips, within a few years. We assess the state of play in the nascent space tourism industry.

Auroral displays continue to intrigue scientists, whether the bright lights shine over Earth or over another planet. The lights hold clues to the makeup of a planet’s magnetic field and how that field operates.

New research about Jupiter proves that point — and adds to the intrigue.

Peter Delamere, a professor of space physics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, is among an international team of 13 researchers who have made a key discovery related to the aurora of our solar system’s largest planet.

SpaceX will build a lander that the US space agency will use to return humans to the Moon this decade.

This might be the simplest way to get rid of space junk.

SpaceX released a new video recap of the flight of Starship SN10 that includes some never-before-seen perspectives from mid-flight.

Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic rolled out the first in its line of Spaceship III spacecraft. The VSS Imagine is the first new spaceship from the company since the VSS Unity in 2009.

NASA officially announced that it’s going to announce who it will choose to build a rocket capable of bringing the first astronauts to the Moon’s surface since the Apollo missions.

But news of the decision may have just leaked to The Washington Post a little early.

According to documents obtained by the newspaper, NASA has officially chosen Elon Musk’s SpaceX to to build a lunar lander variant of its Starship spacecraft as part of the agency’s Artemis program — an extraordinary coup for the spacetech startup.

Four veteran astronauts will launch to the International Space Station on Thursday (April 22) for SpaceX’s Crew-2 mission, the second operational commercial crew flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.

The mission is set to blast off on April 22 from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:11 a.m. EDT (1011 GMT). And, if all goes as planned, Crew Dragon will dock with the orbital outpost less than 24 hours later.