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SpaceX's Starship launched on the first of many test flights it will undergo before it is ready to ferry astronauts to the moon.

SpaceX’s giant new rocket blasted off on its first test flight Thursday but exploded minutes after rising from the launch pad and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.

Kyiv's military adviser Sergiy Popko said a bright flash was seen over the Ukrainian capital at around 10pm, but it has not yet been established what caused the glow

More than half a century later, NASA is gearing up to send humans to the lunar environment again.

The local administration rules out the possibility of a Russian attack as Ukrainians joke of an alien invasion.

Nasa has denied that a flash which appeared over Kyiv during the night was a falling satellite following a wave of speculation.

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were 30 years ago, according to a new comprehensive international study. Using 50 different satellite estimates, researchers found that Greenland’s melt has gone into hyperdrive in the last few years.

Under a cloudless sky, about 20,000 eclipse chasers watched a rare solar eclipse plunge part of Australia's northwest coast into brief midday darkness Thursday with an accompanying temperature drop.

Nasa says flash seen when its satellite was still in orbit