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

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting on economic issue in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020.

Russia tests anti-satellite weapons system

By Caitlin Yilek April 16, 2020 4:57 pm

Mining the moon sounds crazy, but Trump’s executive order is smart

By Tim Worstall April 14, 2020 4:07 pm

Trump signs executive order encouraging US to mine for minerals on the moon

By Madison Dibble April 8, 2020 5:15 pm

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket stands ready at launch complex 41at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with a payload of a high Frequency satellite Wednesday, March 25, 2020, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The launch is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

Space Force blasts off for the first time

By Jerry Dunleavy March 26, 2020 6:08 pm

President Trump is seen along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Buzz Aldrin on how he is protecting himself from coronavirus: ‘Lying on my ass and locking the door’

By Caitlin Yilek March 18, 2020 8:00 pm

People at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., celebrate as the InSight lander touches down on Mars on Monday, Nov. 26, 2018.

European space mission to Mars delayed partially because of coronavirus outbreak

By Anthony Leonardi March 12, 2020 12:34 pm

Katherine Johnson, 1918-2020

By Emily Zanotti February 28, 2020 4:00 am

Full moon.

Earth temporarily captures new moon the size of a car

By Anthony Leonardi February 27, 2020 3:03 pm

NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson dies at 101 after lifetime of shattering gender and racial barriers

By Madison Dibble February 24, 2020 5:10 pm

‘Mad’ Mike Hughes dies in homemade rocket disaster on mission to prove Earth is flat

By Caitlin Yilek February 23, 2020 6:28 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.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX partners with tourism company to send people into space

By Tim Pearce February 18, 2020 5:53 pm

WATCH: Astronaut reunites with dog after year in space

By Caitlin Yilek February 13, 2020 9:22 pm