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Verge Science is here to bring you the most up-to-date space news and analysis, whether it’s about the latest findings from NASA or comprehensive coverage of the next SpaceX rocket launch to the International Space Station. We’ll take you inside the discoveries of new exoplanets, space weather, space policy, and the booming commercial space industry.

Boeing Starliner test flight delayed until 2022

NASA shuffles astronaut crew assignments amid ongoing Boeing delays

Russia launches movie actress and producer to space for cosmic film shoot

Blue Origin’s ideas to mimic SpaceX sound pretty brutal for employees

Blue Origin is officially sending William Shatner to space

The Europe-Japan mission to Mercury sends back photos of the planet’s cratered surface

SNL says what we were all thinking in its billionaire Star Trek sketch

‘Rife with sexism’: employees of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin describe ‘toxic’ workplace culture

Honda is doubling down on rockets, robots, and flying cars

FAA clears Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo for flight after probe into July incident

Amazon sent us a 13-page PDF to prove Elon Musk is as litigious as Jeff Bezos

Blue Origin ‘gambled’ with its Moon lander pricing, NASA says in legal documents

Blue Origin is backed by the world’s richest man — why didn’t it just offer NASA a cheaper lunar lander?

Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos: ‘you cannot sue your way to the Moon’

The imaginary rocket driving a small-town spaceport

Is the FAA licensing spaceports that are doomed to fail?

At pivotal points in human spaceflight, NASA undergoes major reorganization

Launch startups Astra and Firefly ink secret rocket engine IP deal

A roughly $30 million handshake between two rivals is the latest display of consolidation in the small launch industry

SpaceX’s Inspiration4 crew returns to Earth, capping first fully private mission in orbit

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says Starlink internet service leaving beta in October

SpaceX’s first private crew shows what they’ve been up to in orbit

SpaceX launches its first private crewed mission to space

How to watch the Inspiration4 launch, SpaceX’s first fully private mission to space

SpaceX is about to send its first crew of private citizens to space

Amazon, fighting SpaceX’s Starlink plans, says Elon Musk’s companies don’t care about rules

NASA sets new date for James Webb Space Telescope launch

NASA’s Perseverance rover finally snatched its first Mars rock sample

Firefly releases video and more details about its Alpha rocket that exploded mid-flight

Firefly’s Alpha rocket detonated by Space Force during first launch

FAA grounds Virgin Galactic’s core spaceship pending probe into Richard Branson’s flight

FAA investigating off-course descent of Virgin Galactic’s flight with Richard Branson

Astra rocket does a real smooth slide before failing to reach orbit

COVID surge causes liquid oxygen problems for SpaceX, water utilities

Elon Musk: ‘Bezos retired in order to pursue a full-time job filing lawsuits against SpaceX’