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SpaceX Starship Flight 15: Deorbit, reentry and historic tower catch
SpaceX caught Starship Ship 42 at its launch tower at Starbase, Texas, on Saturday, November 14, completing the final phase of Flight 15 after more than 22 hours in space. The ship began its return with a deorbit burn before entering Earth’s atmosphere, slowing from hypersonic speeds through transonic and subsonic flight. It then performed its landing flip and final landing burn before the tower’s mechanical arms caught the vehicle at approximately 4:20 p.m. ET. This marked the first successful tower catch of a Starship upper stage. The Super Heavy booster also had a scheduled catch on Flight 15, but it aborted the catch due to guidance and navigation issues, along with low fuel. The booster splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. Video Credit: SpaceX
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LIFTOFF! SpaceX launches Starship Flight 15 in historic attempt to catch both stages
SpaceX launched Starship Flight 15 from Starbase, Texas, on Friday, November 13, at 5:47 p.m. ET. It is the first flight planned to catch both Starship and the Super Heavy booster at the launch site. Starship is carrying 26 Starlink V3 satellites and is planned to orbit about 170 miles above Earth for about 14 orbits over more than 22 hours. Video Credit: SpaceX
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ESA telescope captures more than 1 billion stars and galaxies for its 3D map of the universe
ESA’s Euclid space telescope has released the biggest piece yet of its 3D map of the universe, ESA says. The release covers about 13 months of observations over an area about 9,500 times the size of the full Moon and contains more than 1 billion objects, including over 900 million galaxies. The video zooms into a nearly 500-gigapixel mosaic of the northern sky and the Messier 81 galaxy group, about 12 million light-years away. ESA released the data on November 12, 2026. Video Credit: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, Image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre and E. Bertin
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8 space myths that will change how you see the universe
Eight popular space claims are checked against NASA, NOAA, the National Weather Service and peer-reviewed science. The Sun is white. The Moon has a far side, not a permanently dark one. Black holes do not pull in everything around them. Seasons come from Earth’s tilt, not its distance from the Sun. Astronauts still feel gravity. The Great Wall is not visible to the naked eye from orbit. The Big Bang was not an explosion in space. The Sun will not explode. Every source is verified and shown on screen. Credits: Image Credit: Getty; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR); NASA; National Weather Service; National Air and Space Museum; A.I. Generated Visuals Video Credit: Getty; NASA; NASA/NOAA; NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab
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LIFTOFF! SpaceX launches classified USSF-627 Space Force mission from California, sticks landing
A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the classified USSF-627 mission for the U.S. Space Force from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on November 11, 2026, Pacific time. The first stage, on its seventh flight, landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. The booster previously launched NROL-179, SDA-T1TL-E, SDA-T1TL-A, and three Starlink missions. SpaceX has not disclosed the payload. Video Credit: SpaceX
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STAR FORMATION! Webb reveals a turbulent stellar nursery 161,000 light-years away
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured N159, a massive star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 161,000 light-years from Earth. Webb’s observations reveal dense clouds of gas and dust, ionised hydrogen and intricate structures within this turbulent stellar nursery. The region spans approximately 230 light-years and contains thousands of stars in their earliest stages of formation. Less than three million years old, N159 offers astronomers an opportunity to study how stars form in an environment with fewer elements heavier than hydrogen and helium than the Milky Way. Video Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, E. Sabbi, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç
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"We'll find evidence of ET before 2035": SETI scientist Seth Shostak on aliens, Pentagon's UFO files
How long before we finally chance upon a sign of alien life in the cosmos? It could be sooner than you think, believes Dr. Seth Shostak, an American astronomer and senior scientist at the SETI Institute. In a conversation with Starlust.org's Ankita Garkoti, Shostak shares his intriguing perspective on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, both on Earth and in space, using the latest technology. He is confident that within the next decade, we may find evidence of alien life, and it would change our understanding of our place in the universe. Shostak also discusses public perceptions of the declassified UFO files released by the Pentagon and connects it to pop culture. Addressing allegations that the U.S. government is hiding evidence of aliens from the people, Shostak explains why it would be impossible, drawing on his own experience as a former government employee. © 2026 Starlust. All rights reserved. This is an exclusive interview conducted and published by Starlust.org. No part of this video may be reproduced or republished without prior written permission from Starlust.org. For permission to use or share this content, please write to contact@starlust.org. #SETI #AlienLife #ExtraterrestrialLife #UFO #UAP #Pentagon #ExtraterrestrialIntelligence #SethShostak #Alien #SpaceExploration
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SpaceX Starship Flight 15: How the 22-hour mission and double tower catch will work
SpaceX is preparing for Starship Flight 15, targeted for November 13 pending regulatory approval, with an ambitious plan to bring both rocket stages back to Starbase for a catch by the launch tower. The approximately 22-hour mission will see Starship deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites and complete around 14 orbits before attempting its first return to the launch site. During its orbital coast, flight controllers will continuously monitor the spacecraft’s critical systems before deciding whether it is safe to attempt reentry. Meanwhile, new aviation warnings have revealed contingency reentry areas in the Indian Ocean and Pacific near Chile. SpaceX has also outlined alternative splashdown options if the spacecraft cannot safely return. The mission will test Starship’s ability to survive atmospheric reentry, navigate over northern Mexico and southern Texas, and perform a precise landing manoeuvre between the launch tower’s mechanical arms. Video credit: SpaceX, Starlink, NGA NAVWARNING, FAA NOTAM
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Astronomers capture a space cloud that looks like Van Gogh’s The Starry Night
The Corona Australis Molecular Cloud is one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth, about 430 light-years away. This Dark Energy Camera view from Chile is reminiscent of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, NOIRLab says. At left, the binary R Coronae Australis lights the surrounding gas and dust, and the Chandelier Cluster, NGC 6723, shines at upper right, about 29,000 light-years away. Released July 16, 2026. Video Credit: Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF NOIRLab), R. Colombari and M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab)
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On this day in 2011: A Russian probe meant to bring back Mars moon soil reached orbit, then went silent
Russia launched its Phobos-Grunt probe on November 8, 2011 (November 9 in Moscow), on a mission to land on Mars’s moon Phobos and bring about 7 ounces of soil back to Earth. Two engine burns that were meant to send it toward Mars never happened, and the spacecraft stayed in low Earth orbit. A Russian commission later reported that two channels of the onboard computer rebooted at the same time. The probe fell back to Earth over the Pacific Ocean on January 15, 2012. It was Russia’s first interplanetary mission since Mars 96. Japan’s MMX mission, launched in October 2026, is now attempting a Phobos sample return. Image Credit: Pline, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Svobodat, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; United States Strategic Command; ESA; A.I. Generated Visuals Video Credit: Roscosmos TV; JAXA via AP
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STAR NURSERY! NASA’s Webb imaged a nearby galaxy’s region where stars can have more than 100 times the Sun’s mass
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged NGC 604, a star-forming region in the Triangulum galaxy about 2.7 million light-years away, NASA said on March 9, 2024. Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument showed bubbles and tendrils of gas around young stars. NASA said more than 200 of the hottest, most massive kinds of stars, all in the early stages of their lives, are sheltered in the region, and the largest can have more than 100 times the mass of the Sun. NASA said the region is similar to the Orion Nebula but much larger and contains many more recently formed stars. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Video Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
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NASA reveals nuclear-powered PROMISE rover for future Moon Base operations
NASA unveiled PROMISE, a nuclear-powered rover designed to help prepare for humanity’s first Moon base. The announcement came on Saturday, November 6, at the MAX POWER aerospace expo and air show at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Set to explore the Moon’s South Pole, PROMISE will study the lunar surface and search for water ice and other valuable resources beneath the ground. Built using proven hardware from NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, it will carry a suite of science instruments, including a drill capable of reaching one metre below the surface. The rover will also test advanced computing and autonomous navigation technologies to explore permanently shadowed regions of the Moon. Targeted for launch in late 2028, its 18-month mission will gather data to help NASA establish a sustained human presence on the lunar surface. Video edited using footage owned by NASA.
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SpaceX Starship Flight 15 full path
SpaceX has detailed the full path of Starship Flight 15, targeting no earlier than Friday, November 13, pending regulatory approval. After launching to orbit and deploying Starlink V3 satellites, Starship will coast for about 21 hours, then deorbit over the Pacific and fly in over northern Mexico and southern Texas. Over Starbase, it will flip upright and be caught between the tower’s arms. SpaceX says controllers have options to end the flight early at each stage. It will be the first attempt to return Starship’s upper stage to its launch site. Video Credit: SpaceX