"The FAA issued a license modification authorizing the SpaceX Starship Flight 8 launch," FAA officials said in an emailed statement today (Feb. 28). "The FAA determined SpaceX met all safety, environmental and other licensing requirements for the suborbital test flight."

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it has cleared the SpaceX Starship vehicle to return to flight operations while an investigation into the Jan. 16 Starship Flight 7 mishap remains open.

SpaceX has attained authorization from regulators to fly its massive Starship rocket once again, the FAA announced on Friday.

"We hope the impact of this research will be to guide future studies that keep astronauts healthy during extended space travel and in colonizing space."

The overly sterile environment of the International Space Station is missing important microbes, a new detailed map shows. If we want to live off Earth, we may need to take more of our bacterial frien

The International Space Station (ISS) is too clean and should be made dirtier to keep astronauts healthy, scientists have advised.