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

It may more be related to lawmakers' interests in home states than anti-Russian sentiments, analysts say. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Lawmakers fight over Russian engines about politics, not threats

By Jacqueline Klimas December 6, 2015 5:01 am

NASA finds potential water on Mars

NASA finds potential water on Mars

By Robert King September 28, 2015 4:40 pm

The Obama administration says a new entity is needed to make sure threat information is effectively digested among multiple agencies. (AP photos)Â

U.S. policies have influenced Iranian, North Korean behavior in cyberspace

By Charlie Mitchell September 14, 2015 4:01 am

Editorial cartoon: A distant, icy world

By Washington Examiner July 14, 2015 4:00 am

Washington Examiner: Lost in space — The vast emptiness of America’s space vision

Washington Examiner: Lost in space — The vast emptiness of America’s space vision

By Lisa Ruhl July 13, 2015 11:30 am

NASA selects astronauts for commercial space flights

NASA selects astronauts for commercial space flights

By Emilie Padgett July 10, 2015 6:43 pm

Rethinking America’s place in space

Rethinking America’s place in space

By Arthur Herman July 7, 2015 4:01 am

This November 13, 2014 handout photo provided by the European Space Agency shows the surface of the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet as seen from the Philae lander, which landed on the comet's surface. (Photo ESA via Getty Images)

Scientists suspect signs of alien life on a comet

By Emilie Padgett July 6, 2015 11:18 pm

This artist's concept shows the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), designed to test landing technologies for future Mars missions. A balloon will lift the vehicle to high altitudes, where a rocket will take it even higher, to the top of the stratosphere, at several times the speed of sound. (Courtesy of JPL/NASA)

NASA prepares to test flying saucer

By Emilie Padgett June 3, 2015 4:01 am

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Small satellites make U.S. ‘increasingly vulnerable’

By Tara Copp February 10, 2015 10:00 am

"The United States must maintain our asymmetric advantage in space and that won't happen without congressional support and oversight," said Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., co-chairman of the Space Power Caucus. (AP Photo)

Lawmakers revive space caucus

By Charles Hoskinson January 14, 2015 8:29 pm

millionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is on the verge of pocketing $1.5 million in subsidies from Waco, Texas, on top of $1.5 million from McLennan County, which includes Waco, the Waco Tribune reports. (AP Photo)

Millionaire Elon Musk to get $3 million subsidy from Waco-area taxpayers

By Timothy P. Carney December 15, 2014 9:03 pm