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

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, left, introduced NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

New York Times runs big corrections to op-ed about NASA’s ‘gender bias’

By Becket Adams July 23, 2019 10:02 pm

A stock image of an asteroid.

Asteroid’s near-miss is a huge wake-up call

By Harold Hutchison July 23, 2019 7:14 pm

This photo released by the Indian Space Research Organization shows its Geosynchronous Satellite launch Vehicle MkIII carrying Chandrayaan-2 lift off from Satish Dhawan Space center in Sriharikota, India, Monday, July 22, 2019.

India successfully launches a rocket to the moon

By Regina Barton July 22, 2019 3:43 pm

WATCH: Astronauts launch to space on 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing

By Caitlin Yilek July 20, 2019 6:21 pm

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

EXCLUSIVE: Buzz Aldrin wants to go back to the moon — as a first step to putting settlers on Mars

By Jerry Dunleavy July 20, 2019 2:58 pm

Photographers on the roof of the Vehicle Assembly building capture the launch and rocket boosters landing of a SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Race back to space

By Washington Examiner July 20, 2019 4:00 am

In this July 20, 1969 photo made available by NASA, flight controllers work in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center during the Apollo 11 lunar extravehicular activity.

11,000 hours of unheard mission control audio restored for Apollo 11 50th anniversary

By Jonas Wells July 19, 2019 2:53 pm

‘The Eagle has landed,’ 50 years later

‘The Eagle has landed,’ 50 years later

By Edward Hudgins July 19, 2019 4:05 am

Space: Where no bureaucracy has gone before

By Charles Steele and ross-hatley July 19, 2019 4:05 am

This March 30, 1969 photo made available by NASA shows the crew of the Apollo 11, from left, Neil Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, module pilot; Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, lunar module pilot. Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.

Bad news: The moon landing, one of humanity’s greatest achievements, was apparently not inclusive enough

By Becket Adams July 18, 2019 6:34 pm

Evergreen trees are silhouetted on the mountain top as a supermoon rises over over the Dark Sky Community of Summit Sky Ranch in Silverthorne, Colorado.

China to mine moon, asteroids and races to be ‘#1 space power by 2045’

By Paul Bedard July 17, 2019 8:54 pm

This picture shows Dr. Wernher Von Braun, top army missile expert, indicating on a chart, December 6, 1958, the point in space - 64,830 miles from the earth - the nose cone of Pioneer III is expected to reach before it begins to fall back toward the earth.

DC news outlet apologizes for Apollo 11 story on ‘brilliant’ Nazi rocket scientist

By Daniel Chaitin July 16, 2019 7:37 pm