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

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.

WATCH LIVE: SpaceX and NASA launch historic rocket to space

By Anthony Leonardi May 30, 2020 6:52 pm

A SpaceX Falcon 9 sits on Launch Pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

NASA says SpaceX launch is about hope, commerce, the moon, Mars — and China

By Jerry Dunleavy May 30, 2020 5:14 pm

This undated photo released by Virgin Galactic shows the interior of their SpaceshipTwo Cabin during a flight. Highly detailed amenities to enhance the customer experience were shown in an online event Tuesday, July 28, 2020, revealing the cabin of the companyâs rocket plane, a type called SpaceShipTwo, which is undergoing testing in preparation for commercial service. There are a dozen windows for viewing, seats capable of being customized to each of six passengers and mood lighting.

Historic SpaceX flight delayed due to weather

By Zach Halaschak May 27, 2020 8:30 pm

Trump to visit SpaceX rocket launch in Florida next week

By Mica Soellner May 22, 2020 8:09 pm

The United States Space Force flagÂ is presented in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2020, in Washington.

Space Force flag unveiled

By Zach Halaschak May 15, 2020 6:08 pm

‘Hope in being united’: US astronaut gives advice to people on Earth during pandemic

By Zach Halaschak May 12, 2020 9:52 pm

Space Force recruitment video invokes Steve Carell Netflix role

By Abraham Mahshie May 6, 2020 6:46 pm

This image made from video shows unidentified flying objects in the skies over southern Campeche state filmed by Mexican Air Force pilots on March 5, 2004.

Why the Navy should, but won’t, tell us that much about UFOs

By Tom Rogan April 27, 2020 7:56 pm

A Sabre short-range ballistic missile launches in June 2017 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, for a test of the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement, an advanced missile defense system. Hypersonic missiles might be able to penetrate PAC-3 and similar systems.

Iran’s Nur satellite is a de facto ballistic missile test

By Tom Rogan April 22, 2020 5:40 pm

Buzz: Trump skyline doodle at auction, Mark Halperin is back, Apollo 13 fact-checking

By Paul Bedard April 22, 2020 5:06 pm

Iran says it launched its first military satellite into orbit

By Caitlin Yilek April 22, 2020 11:50 am

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a demo Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from pad 39A on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday, March 2, 2019.

NASA reveals date to launch astronauts into space from US soil for first time in nearly a decade

By Zach Halaschak April 17, 2020 6:04 pm