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

Vice President Mike Pence waves at a campaign rally at the North Central West Virginia Airport, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018, in Bridgeport, W.Va. Pence made his second stop in West Virginia in the past three months to rally for Republican U.S. Senate nominee Morrisey on Saturday night.

Pence refuses to rule out ending ban on nuclear weapons in space

By Travis J. Tritten October 23, 2018 4:04 pm

Tesla Motors Inc., CEO Elon Musk talks to the media.

We don’t deserve Elon Musk

By Louis Sarkozy October 22, 2018 5:47 pm

FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2017 file photo Melanie Richter controls the Yuneec selfie drone 'Breeze 4K' with a smartphone at the IFA 2017 tech fair in Berlin, Germany.

Undersecretary Kan: Smart regulatory reforms at Transportation improve safety and foster growth

By Derek Kan October 22, 2018 1:30 pm

Fact Check: Was a Rock Used as a Doorstep Actually a Valuable Meteorite?

By Holmes Lybrand October 12, 2018 2:46 pm

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-10 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blasts off at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday.

Latest Russian launch failure a reminder that US needs its own space program

By Erin Dunne October 11, 2018 6:30 pm

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz MS-10 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin. Two astronauts from the U.S. and Russia are making an emergency landing after a Russian booster rocket carrying them into orbit to the International Space Station has failed after launch.

Astronauts to be flown to Moscow after emergency

By Associated Press October 11, 2018 12:02 pm

In this Jan. 20, 2011 file photo, a Boeing Delta 4 Heavy rocket rises from the launch pad during its first unmanned launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The 235-foot-tall Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle was carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office. As it turns 50, the ultra-secretive National Reconnaissance Office is putting a multibillion-dollar misstep behind it and casting its spy satellites on new enemies, from al-Qaida bomb planters to North Korean nuclear engineers, according to its chief.

Boeing invests in satellite startup Accion as US focuses on space

By James Langford October 10, 2018 3:02 pm

This image released by Universal Pictures shows Ryan Gosling, from left, Corey Stoll and Lukas Haas in a scene from "First Man."

‘First Man’ propels us toward more giant leaps for mankind

By Tyler Grant October 10, 2018 1:26 pm

Jim Mattis, U.S. secretary of defense, smiles while introducing U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, left, during an event at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018. President Donald Trump's administration will call on Congress to allocate $8 billion over the next five years to establish the U.S. Space Force as the sixth branch of the military, Pence said today.

How to avoid a bloated Space Force

By John Dale Grover October 10, 2018 4:00 am

NASA’s 60th Anniversary: The evolution of human spaceflight

By Linda Hernandez October 6, 2018 4:00 pm

Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson speaks during an interview.

‘This is nonsense’: Pentagon swats down report that Trump may fire Air Force secretary

By David Brown October 5, 2018 7:38 pm

President Trump speaks before signing a policy directive to send American astronauts back to the moon, and eventually Mars, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017.

Trump mulls replacing Air Force head over Space Force management

By Diana Stancy Correll October 4, 2018 9:50 pm