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

Leila McNeill wrote in an article republished in The Atlantic magazine on Monday that the skies are "still filtered through this tradition of mythic misogyny." (iStock photo)

Scientist apologizes for tricking followers into thinking slice of chorizo was distant star

By Brady Knox August 6, 2022 11:00 am

Keeping track of lost time

By Kaylee McGhee White August 5, 2022 3:00 am

SpaceX will administer health and fitness tests on the tourists before initial training for the mission begins. (AP Photo/NASA)

NASA will only let tourists go to space if accompanied by former astronauts

By Cami Mondeaux August 3, 2022 7:26 pm

Days are getting shorter as the Earth spins faster

By Jenny Goldsberry August 3, 2022 6:34 pm

SEE IT: James Webb Space Telescope reveals incredible Cartwheel Galaxy

By Luke Gentile August 2, 2022 9:35 pm

China's Long March 5B Y3 carrier rocket, carrying its Wentian lab space station module, blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province Sunday, July 24, 2022.

US Space Command confirms Chinese rocket debris fell into Indian Ocean

By Jenny Goldsberry July 30, 2022 8:07 pm

NASA's Perseverance rover is shown here collecting a rock from the surface of Mars. NASA announced it will launch two more mini helicopters to Mars in its effort to recover Martian rocks and soil samples and bring them to Earth.

NASA to launch helicopters to help return rock samples from Mars

By Heather Hamilton July 28, 2022 3:11 pm

China's Long March 5B Y3 carrier rocket, carrying its Wentian lab space station module, blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province Sunday, July 24, 2022.

Huge Chinese rocket debris uncontrollably falling to Earth

By Heather Hamilton July 26, 2022 2:39 pm

Russia announces intent to leave International Space Station after 2024

By Abigail Adcox July 26, 2022 2:19 pm

NASA unveils ambitious plan to discover life on distant planets

By Luke Gentile July 25, 2022 3:27 pm

Oldest galaxy in universe discovered

By Brayden Dean July 21, 2022 3:02 pm

James Webb telescope faces ‘significant uncorrectable’ damage from micrometeoroid hit: Report

By Ryan King July 20, 2022 3:21 pm