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

Space Development Agency announces contracts for hypersonic weapons defense

By Mike Brest July 18, 2022 7:22 pm

‘Mars needs people’: Mark Cuban shares what Elon Musk told him about having children

By Julia Johnson July 17, 2022 5:16 pm

This illustration provided by NASA shows the Perseverance rover, bottom, landing on Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely on Feb. 18, 2021. Entry, Descent, and Landing, or "EDL," begins when the spacecraft reaches the top of the Martian atmosphere, traveling nearly 12,500 mph (20,000 kph). EDL ends about seven minutes after atmospheric entry, with Perseverance stationary on the Martian surface.

Elon Musk reveals when he thinks we will land on Mars

By Cami Mondeaux July 16, 2022 5:13 pm

SEE IT: NASA releases ‘absolutely astonishing’ image of Jupiter

By Luke Gentile July 15, 2022 2:21 pm

This image provided by NASA shows the immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as Messier 31, captured in full in this new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.

Out of this world: Astronomers discover mysterious ‘heartbeat’ in far-off galaxy

By Julia Johnson July 13, 2022 9:28 pm

Technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The telescopeâs 18-segmented gold mirror is specially designed to capture infrared light from the first galaxies that formed in the early universe.

James Webb telescope comes after years of American persistence

By James Sweet July 12, 2022 9:44 pm

James Webb Space Telescope captures ‘signature of water’ on distant gas planet

By Abigail Adcox July 12, 2022 3:30 pm

July’s ‘buck’ moon to light up the sky this week

By Luke Gentile July 12, 2022 2:24 pm

This image provided by NASA on Monday, July 11, 2022, shows galaxy cluster SMACS 0723.

First full-color image from James Webb Space Telescope revealed

By Abigail Adcox July 11, 2022 8:56 pm

The solar system could collapse if star gets too close to Neptune: Researchers

By Jack Birle July 11, 2022 4:19 pm

Biden to unveil James Webb Space Telescope’s first photo at White House

By Victor I. Nava July 11, 2022 10:01 am

NASA accuses Russia of politicizing space station to support war in Ukraine

By Ryan King July 8, 2022 1:35 am