6 d. ago Swarm of earthquakes rocks Texas with largest nearly 4 magnitude

Texas experienced multiple earthquakes within three hours on Monday. The seismic activity started around 5:45am ET and hit the state's western region.

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9 d. ago Elon Musk’s company town: SpaceX employees to vote on ‘Starbase’

Residents – most of them SpaceX workers – in remote Texas community expected to approve plan to create new cityVoters in a small patch of south Texas are casting their ballots on Saturday in an election that could give Elon Musk a town to call his own. The vote would officially create a new city called Starbase in the area where Musk’s SpaceX holds its Texas rocket launches.A couple of hundred residents of what was previously known as Boca Chica will decide whether to make their unincorporated neighborhoods into a town that would grant them the authority to pass city ordinances. The outcome, which will be decided almost entirely by SpaceX employees and their families, who make up the majority of the local population, is nearly guaranteed to result in incorporation. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Voters to decide if the Texas home of Elon Musk's SpaceX should become an official city: Starbase

Voters are deciding if the South Texas home of Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX will become an official city known as Starbase

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1 week ago The home of Elon Musk's SpaceX could become an official Texas city called Starbase

Elon Musk has for years made Texas his business home and playground as he launches rockets and builds cars in the Lone Star state

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3 w. ago California rocked by earthquake swarm just days after 5.2 magnitude hit

California was hit by multiple earthquakes on Wednesday, just days after a major 5.2 magnitude quake rocked the state.

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3 w. ago San Diego earthquake LIVE: California rocked by 'big' tremor as locals told 'drop, take cover, hold on'

San Diego in California has been rocked by a huge earthquake of around 5.2 magnitude which several people described as the largest they had ever felt in the city

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3 w. ago Blue Origin crew including Katy Perry safely returns to Earth after space flight

All-female crew led by Jeff Bezos’s fiancee Lauren Sánchez lands in Texas after reaching the edge of outer spaceKaty Perry’s space flight – latest updatesSix women – including the pop star Katy Perry and morning TV host Gayle King – safely completed a trip to the edge of outer space and back from a private Texas ranch on Monday morning on a rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos, the Amazon co-founder and commercial space flight entrepreneur.The women, who also included Bezos’s fiancee, Lauren Sánchez, made the trip to the Kármán line – the internationally recognized boundary of space – to float about, weightlessly, in the rocket’s capsule for three minutes before returning to Earth. Continue reading...

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