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

The first independent air force — 100 years before the Space Force

By Hugo Gurdon September 7, 2018 6:46 pm

Payload specialist Mamoru Mohri of Hokkaido, Japan, and Mission Specialist Mae Jemison of Chicago, Ill., walk together after arriving with the rest of the STS-47 crew, Sept. 9, 1992, at Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

Is space exploration racist?

By Mark R. Whittington September 7, 2018 5:59 pm

Adam Smith and Heather Wilson.

Trump’s Space Force gets praise from top Democrat and the Air Force

By Travis J. Tritten September 5, 2018 3:57 pm

NASA and Russian space officials stressed Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, that the six astronauts are in no danger after a small air leak developed in one, at left, of the two Soyuz capsules docked at the space station.

Russian expert: Space station sabotage theory ‘nonsense’

By Joel Gehrke September 4, 2018 6:08 pm

Neil Armstrong waving in front, heads for the van that will take the crew to the rocket for launch to the moon at Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Island, Fla.

Movie portraying Neil Armstrong’s moon landing leaves out image of planting the American flag

By Katelyn Caralle August 31, 2018 1:24 pm

A SpaceX heavy rocket lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Elon Musk and SpaceX are taking taxpayers for a ride (not literally)

By Bill Wirtz August 28, 2018 5:05 pm

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is pictured during an interview on Tuesday.

NASA: Space Force needed to protect energy grid from ‘existential threat’

By John Siciliano August 26, 2018 4:00 am

This illustration made available by NASA on March 29, 2018 shows the twin Mars Cube One (MarCO) spacecraft flying over Mars with Earth and the sun in the distance. The MarCOs will be the first CubeSats - a kind of modular, mini-satellite - flown into deep space. They're designed to fly along behind NASA's InSight lander on its cruise to Mars.

Go to Mars, but also boost research into deep space travel

By Tom Rogan August 24, 2018 4:13 pm

Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a visit to NASA's Johnson Space Center, Aug. 23, 2018, in Houston.

Mike Pence is letting the world know that the United States still owns the moon

By Philip Wegmann August 23, 2018 7:55 pm

Boeing, which won a contract to develop and test an experimental space plane for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is expanding its space business with the acquisition of a satellite-builder.

Boeing snaps up satellite firm as Trump pushes US ‘Space Force’

By James Langford August 16, 2018 6:43 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin watches the launch of a Russian rocket carrying satellites at the new Vostochny Cosmodrome outside the city of Uglegorsk on April 28, 2016.

Russia’s secret satellite is nothing you should worry about

By Tom Rogan August 16, 2018 6:27 pm

NASA probe rockets toward sun for closest look yet

By Associated Press August 12, 2018 12:53 pm