Space

Routine SpaceX Starship test ends in explosion in massive setback for Musk’s company

By Elaine Mallon June 19, 2025 11:28 am

Musk says he won’t decommission Dragon spacecraft after X user tells him to ‘cool off’

Ross O'Keefe Jun 5, 2025

Northern lights spawned by solar storm could be visible over several states tonight

Brady Knox Jun 2, 2025

White House withdraws Jared Isaacman’s nomination to lead NASA

Zach LaChance May 31, 2025

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

FAA demands investigation into SpaceX Starship test failure

Jack Birle May 31, 2025

This photo made available by NASA was taken during the first drive of the Perseverance rover on Mars on March 4, 2021. A NASA rover on Mars by chance had its microphone on when a whirling tower of red dust passed overhead and caught the sound. Scientists released the first-of-its-kind audio Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022.

Red devil: NASA rover captures first sound of dust devil on Mars

By Associated Press December 13, 2022 4:57 pm

NASA's new moon rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B hours ahead of a planned launch at the Kennedy Space Center Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

NASA’s Artemis I to splash down after historic moon mission

By Heather Hunter December 11, 2022 5:31 pm

Army astronauts troll Navy for special uniforms ahead of huge college football matchup

By Misty Severi December 10, 2022 10:38 pm

K-Pop star to join SpaceX mission around the moon

By Associated Press December 9, 2022 5:29 pm

Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, is photographed next to the deployed United States flag during lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet Earth in the distant background. This picture was taken by scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) to explore the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit.

Fifty years after Apollo 17, why have we not gone back to the moon?

By Mark Whittington December 9, 2022 5:10 am

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

China racing to beat the US in a looming lunar gold rush

By Jamie McIntyre December 1, 2022 10:40 pm

Stunning pictures from NASA’s Orion spacecraft show moon eclipsing Earth

By Jack Birle November 28, 2022 7:55 pm

NASA official predicts humans will live on the moon ‘this decade’

By Ryan King November 21, 2022 9:39 pm

A woman observes the night sky for Leonid Meteors at an observatory near the village of Progled south of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.

Meteor mania: Leonid meteor shower to reach peak activity Thursday night

By Julia Johnson November 17, 2022 11:11 pm

WATCH: NASA successfully launches Artemis I moon rocket

By Shana Donahue November 16, 2022 10:13 am

WATCH: Artemis I launches for moon from Kennedy Space Center

By Rachel Schilke November 16, 2022 4:40 am

Artemis launch: NASA’s moon rocket to launch in early morning hours Wednesday after massive delay

By Rachel Schilke November 15, 2022 4:11 pm