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

On Wednesday, members from the House and the Senate struck an agreement on a bill that proposes a major hike in defense spending and a raft of Pentagon reforms. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Here’s a look at what did (and didn’t) make it into the $700 billion defense policy bill

By Travis J. Tritten November 8, 2017 10:38 pm

SpaceX has been greasing the wheels of Congress to eliminate its competitors for years. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is at war with the free market

By Samuel Postell October 30, 2017 6:23 pm

Increasingly America's everyday life depends on a constellation of military and commercial satellites in low earth orbit that provide communication, surveillance, and navigation that keeps society functioning and the economy humming.

Space: The final frontline of defense

By Jamie McIntyre October 30, 2017 4:01 am

They are not mutually exclusive but can be mutually beneficial. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, pool)

The Pope and astronauts just proved how science and faith can serve each other

By Tom Rogan October 27, 2017 2:18 pm

Miami congressional candidate Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a Republican, claims she has been aboard an alien spaceship.

Christine O’Donnell 2.0 pops up in Florida (because of course)

By Becket Adams October 16, 2017 2:22 pm

Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera said three blond, big-bodied beings visited her when she was 7 years old. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Florida House candidate once said aliens took her on a spaceship

By Caitlin Yilek October 16, 2017 2:17 pm

President Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk in front of an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as they arrive to deliver remarks to military personnel at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sept. 15. The F-35 is a plane the President has criticized in the past. (Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)

Size of the Army and F-35 purchases top NDAA negotiations

By Travis J. Tritten October 9, 2017 4:01 am

House lawmakers next week will approve another federal emergency funding request to aid states and U.S. territories ravaged by recent hurricanes. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

Congress next week: Hurricane relief and whistleblower protection

By Susan Ferrechio October 7, 2017 1:00 pm

Vice President Mike Pence vowed Thursday that the U.S. will become the international leader in space exploration. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Mike Pence vows to make America’s space program great again

By Anna Giaritelli October 5, 2017 11:47 am

The report offers a "consensus" that "the batteries were used as a power source for transmitters in Sputnik I and Sputnik II." (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

British batteries were used in the sputnik satellites, declassified spy report says

By Tom Rogan October 4, 2017 7:08 pm

Afternoon Links: Space Junk, Tom Price’s Plane Problem, and a Tweeting Justice

By Jim Swift September 28, 2017 8:16 pm

"While the deep space gateway is still in concept formulation, NASA is pleased to see growing international interest in moving into cislunar space as the next step for advancing human space exploration," said NASA's acting administrator. (NASA)

NASA partnering with Russia on moon and deep space exploration

By Anna Giaritelli September 27, 2017 2:28 pm