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 image released Wednesday, April 10, 2019, by Event Horizon Telescope shows a black hole. Scientists revealed the first image ever made of a black hole after assembling data gathered by a network of radio telescopes around the world.

Astronomers capture sharper images of first black hole photographed

By Kaelan Deese April 15, 2021 4:04 pm

Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012. China sent its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Intel chief: China to put space station in orbit during Biden presidency

By Joel Gehrke April 14, 2021 7:49 pm

A stock image of an asteroid.

Witnesses from Miami to Jacksonville spot rare fireball in sky

By Kaelan Deese April 13, 2021 11:12 pm

Andy Lack, Ronan Farrow, Chris Hayes.

Starlink explained: Elon Musk’s new superfast satellite internet service

By Nihal Krishan April 8, 2021 10:04 am

In this image provided by NASA, this false-color Voyager picture of Uranus shows a discrete cloud seen a bright streak near the planet's limb. (AP Photo/NASA)

Scientists discover X-rays emitting from Uranus

By Kaelan Deese April 1, 2021 7:00 pm

Elon Musk announces $30M in donations to Texas city and school districts

By Jeremy Beaman March 30, 2021 8:50 pm

SpaceX chief engineer Elon Musk, second from left, talks to the media with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA astronauts crew Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, right, in front of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, about the progress to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station, from American soil, as part of the agencyâs commercial crew program at SpaceX headquarters, in Hawthorne, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019.

Final civilian crew members of SpaceX Dragon spacecraft revealed

By Kaelan Deese March 30, 2021 2:03 pm

Sen. Marco Rubio is surging in Florida.

Rubio: Biden administration may miss UFO report deadline

By Daniel Chaitin and Jerry Dunleavy March 27, 2021 8:00 pm

FILE - This Tuesday, March 26, 2013 file photo provided by NASA shows the release of the SpaceX Dragon-2 spacecraft from the International Space Station. A delayed supply run to the International Space Station is now set to launch April 14, 2014. The private company SpaceX will be making its fourth trip to the space station from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch was postponed twice in March, the last time because of an electrical short on Air Force ground equipment. NASA announced the new launch date on Friday, April 4, 2014. The moon is at background center. (AP Photo/NASA)

Avoiding celestial traffic jams

By Alexander Salter March 22, 2021 1:00 pm

Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas., pauses as he speaks to media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018.

Former intelligence chief: ‘Quite a few more’ UFOs detected than public knows

By Daniel Chaitin March 19, 2021 11:51 pm

Fireworks light up the sky against a full moon during a Fourth of July celebration in Kansas City, Kan., in 2012.

Russia and China planning a moon base together

By Kaelan Deese March 9, 2021 8:21 pm

This photo provided by NASA shows the first color image sent by the Perseverance Mars rover after its landing on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.

Biden quips Indian Americans ‘are taking over’ as he praises NASA Mars landing

By Rob Crilly March 4, 2021 11:54 pm