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

President Trump signs a document in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington.

Trump prepares for Space Force by signing space reforms

By Travis J. Tritten August 11, 2018 4:00 am

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.

Space Force has a cool name but more bureaucracy isn’t going to keep America safe

By Erin Dunne August 10, 2018 3:18 pm

Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., talks as a character witness during former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard ethics trial on July 8, 2016, in Opelika, Ala.

Mike Rogers will introduce Space Force bill in January

By Travis J. Tritten August 9, 2018 10:05 pm

Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, asks Defense Secretary Jim Mattis a question during a hearing on Capitol Hill in D.C.

Brian Schatz: Pence announced Space Force because no Republican was willing to tell Trump it’s ‘a dumb idea’

By Naomi Lim August 9, 2018 4:56 pm

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket payload fairing is seen with the NASA and Parker Solar Probe emblems, Wednesday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Parker Solar Probe will travel through the sun's atmosphere, closer to the surface than any other spacecraft before it.

NASA launching probe that will ‘touch’ the sun

By Daniel Chaitin August 9, 2018 2:13 pm

Joe Manchik Green Party

Green Party spoiler candidate in Ohio special election claims to be descended from aliens

By Katelyn Caralle August 8, 2018 3:48 pm

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks at the Pentagon.

Jim Mattis says there is ‘complete agreement’ between DOD, White House on Space Force

By Travis J. Tritten August 7, 2018 6:54 pm

President Trump speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington.

Trump wants a Space Force, but Pentagon has different idea

By Associated Press August 4, 2018 1:29 pm

Thule Air Base in Greenland is pictured above.

Air Force says no damage from Greenland meteor

By Travis J. Tritten August 3, 2018 8:01 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.

NASA releases list of astronauts who will travel to space from US soil

By Katelyn Caralle August 3, 2018 4:40 pm

President Trump speaks to service members at Miramar Air Corps Air Station, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego.

Pentagon to take steps toward creating Trump’s Space Force: Report

By Jamie McIntyre July 31, 2018 12:45 pm

This image shows an artist's rendering of the Mars Express spacecraft (pictured below center) probing the southern hemisphere of Mars.

Scientists find evidence of liquid water lake on Mars

By Mandy Mayfield July 25, 2018 7:14 pm