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 speaks during a ceremony to present the Commander in Chief trophy to the U.S. Military Academy football team in the Rose Garden.

Trump floats ‘Space Force’ as possible sixth military branch

By Katelyn Caralle May 1, 2018 4:55 pm

Commerce Department’s space mission: tracking junk in low-Earth orbit

By Steven Nelson May 1, 2018 4:00 am

The Parallel Universe of the New York Times

By P.J. O'Rourke April 27, 2018 7:20 am

Space Commerce, the Final Bureaucratic Frontier

By Haley Byrd April 24, 2018 8:27 pm

Out-of-control Chinese space station returns to Earth over Pacific Ocean

By Daniel Chaitin April 2, 2018 3:23 am

A crash course on the Chinese space station hurtling toward Earth

By Daniel Chaitin April 1, 2018 3:19 am

In this picture, the shape of China's falling space station Tiangong-1 can be seen in this radar image from the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques near Bonn, Germany. In the next few days, the unoccupied Chinese space station, Tiangong-1, is expected to reenter the atmosphere following the end of its operational life. Most of the craft should burn up.

Emergency operations activated in Michigan as Chinese space station hurtles towards Earth

By Katie Leach March 31, 2018 4:17 pm

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 21, 2017, after signing a bill to increase NASA's budget to $19.5 billion and directs the agency to focus human exploration of deep space and Mars.

After Trump’s shocking ‘Space Force’ announcement, will the Air Force still fight it?

By Travis J. Tritten March 17, 2018 4:00 am

President Donald Trump speaks at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, in San Diego, Tuesday, March 13, 2018.

Pentagon says Space Force is being closely considered

By Travis J. Tritten March 15, 2018 10:09 pm

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

Air Force leaders tread carefully after Trump’s surprise ‘Space Force’ comments

By Travis J. Tritten March 14, 2018 3:56 pm

President Trump said in a speech at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station that the U.S. might need a new military branch specifically dedicated to outer space.

Trump breaks with Pentagon leadership, calls for a new ‘Space Force’

By Steven Nelson and Travis J. Tritten March 13, 2018 9:35 pm

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, left, and Defense Intelligence Agency Dir. Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley Jr., right, take their seats to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Intel chiefs: China, Russia developing ‘attack satellites’ to target US ‘in a few years’

By Joel Gehrke March 6, 2018 5:51 pm