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

Tulsi Gabbard tells Jeff Bezos to ‘stay up there’ and ‘do the world a favor’ during spaceflight

By Jake Dima July 20, 2021 4:03 pm

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos makes it to space, lands safely

By Kaelan Deese July 20, 2021 1:20 pm

WATCH LIVE: Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin spaceflight set to launch

By Washington Examiner Staff July 20, 2021 11:59 am

Bezos set to see space on Tuesday, the 52nd anniversary of the moon landing

By Jeremy Beaman July 19, 2021 4:12 pm

Cars pile up in the flooded area of the Black sea town of Varna, Bulgaria, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Two people and a child are reported dead and four more are missing. Torrential rain caused severe flooding in Bulgaria, sweeping away cars, reducing scores of homes to rubble, the country's civil defense authority said. (AP Photo/ImpactPressGroup)

Moon’s ‘wobble’ could lead to higher flooding on coasts, NASA says

By Charles Hilu July 18, 2021 1:00 pm

Astronauts plant chili peppers in space

By Charles Hilu July 17, 2021 1:00 pm

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks during his news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Bezos announced the Climate Pledge, setting a goal to meet the Paris Agreement 10 years early.

Blue Origin picks 18-year-old to become youngest person in space on Bezos journey after auction winner has ‘scheduling conflicts’

By Mike Brest July 15, 2021 4:23 pm

FILE- In this June 14, 2018, file photo Tesla CEO and founder of the Boring Company Elon Musk speaks at a news conference in Chicago. Musk says he's in talks with the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund about taking the electric car and solar panel maker private, but no deal has been finalized. Musk says in a blog posted Monday, Aug. 13, that most of the funding would be in stock rather than debt.

The wasted outrage over the private space race

By Mark Whittington July 15, 2021 1:36 pm

FAA approves Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin for trip to space

By Jeremy Beaman July 14, 2021 3:22 am

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson testifies before Congress on 2023 budget request. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

NASA administrator calls Richard Branson spaceflight a ‘great’ milestone

By Jake Dima July 12, 2021 3:33 pm

This image provided by Virgin Galactic shows, from left: Chief Pilot Dave Mackay, Lead Operations Engineer Colin Bennett, Chief Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses, Founder of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson, Vice President of Government Affairs and Research Operations Sirisha Bandla and pilot Michael Masucci. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic becomes first billionaire in space

By Kaelan Deese July 11, 2021 3:30 pm

This image provided by Virgin Galactic shows, from left: Chief Pilot Dave Mackay, Lead Operations Engineer Colin Bennett, Chief Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses, Founder of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson, Vice President of Government Affairs and Research Operations Sirisha Bandla and pilot Michael Masucci. (Virgin Galactic via AP)

WATCH LIVE: Virgin Galactic spaceflight set to make Richard Branson first billionaire in space

By Washington Examiner Staff July 11, 2021 3:05 pm