Space 3 September 2020 By Leah Crane A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched on 3 September, carrying the 12th batch of Starlink satellitesSIPA USA/PA Images SpaceX is starting to release more details about its Starlink internet satellites. On 3 September, the firm launched its 12th batch of the satellites from Cape Canaveral in Florida and…
By Leah Crane It may look like a water tower, but SpaceX’s Starship can fly. The rocket, which is designed to send explorers to the moon and eventually Mars, made its first test flight on 4 August. Like smaller prototypes called Starhoppers that flew in 2019, this test was a quick hop, intended to take…
By New Scientist and Press Association The SpaceX Crew Dragon landed in the Gulf of Mexico on 2 AugustNASA/Bill Ingalls NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are back on Earth after their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule made a successful splashdown. The pair landed in the sea, off the coast of Florida, at around 7.48pm…
By Leah Crane SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is the first private spacecraft to launch astronauts to orbitaul Martinez/Getty Images Space history has been made. On 30 May, SpaceX and NASA launched two astronauts to space aboard the Crew Dragon spacecraft, the first time a private company has flown humans into orbit, and the first crewed…
By Leah Crane The Crew Dragon capsule is ready for launchSpaceX/Flickr On 27 May, astronauts will blast off to space from the US for the first time since the end of the space shuttle programme in 2011. Two NASA astronauts – Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley – are slated to launch to the International Space…
8 min read Below is the real, full chat transcript of an exchange between a Men's Health reader with dating anxiety — we'll call him "William” — and ChatGPT. We showed this back-and-forth to Rufus Spann, PhD , sex therapist and founder of Libido Health, and asked him for his thoughts on the quality and
Today we revisit some of the topics we’ve covered in the past months. Published: May 24, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week The World Health Organization (WHO) said this week that more countries need to improve their ability to monitor populations for foodborne diseases. Although gradual progress is evident
Céline Gounder, KFF Health News’ editor-at-large for public health, discussed the diversion of a Detroit-bound plane to Canada over Ebola concerns on CBS News’ CBS Mornings on May 21. Gounder also discussed how the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak has been declared a global health emergency on Fox’s LiveNOW on May 18. Click here