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

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot shrinking before our eyes

By Seth Borenstein May 15, 2014 7:48 pm

DigitalGlobe satellite getting final tests

DigitalGlobe satellite getting final tests

By Washington Examiner May 13, 2014 10:48 pm

NASA downplays Russian’s talk on space cooperation

NASA downplays Russian’s talk on space cooperation

By The Associated Press May 13, 2014 10:30 pm

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry RogozinÃÂ tweeted: "After analysing the sanctions against our space industry I suggest the US delivers its astronauts to the ISS with a trampoline." (AP Photo)

Russia: No more engines for US spy satellite launches

By Charles Hoskinson May 13, 2014 4:00 am

Russian official: ‘I suggest the US deliver its astronauts to the ISS with a trampoline’

Russian official: ‘I suggest the US deliver its astronauts to the ISS with a trampoline’

By Charles Hoskinson April 29, 2014 4:00 am

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, said Friday that his company would file a lawsuit to protest a satellite launch contract the Air Force awarded to a joint Lockheed Martin and Boeing venture. (AP Photo)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to challenge launch-vehicle contract awarded to Lockheed-Boeing venture

By Tim Mak April 25, 2014 4:00 am

Sanctioned Russian official controls company that builds rocket engines to launch U.S. spy satellites

Sanctioned Russian official controls company that builds rocket engines to launch U.S. spy satellites

By Charles Hoskinson April 25, 2014 4:00 am

The Long March-2FT1 carrier rocket loaded with Tiangong-1 unmanned space lab module blasts off from the launch pad at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gansu Province, on the edge of the Gobi Desert, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. China plans to launch an average of 20 satellites per year through 2015 as part of its 100 rockets, 100 satellites program. (AP Photo)

Report: Iran targets U.S. military satellites with lasers, China with missiles

By Paul Bedard April 23, 2014 4:00 am

This artist rendering provided by the U.S. Air Force, shows the AEHF-1 satellite in orbit above the earth. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)

What will US do to counter China’s space offensive?

By Jed Babbin April 16, 2014 4:00 am

Space station sidesteps space junk again

Space station sidesteps space junk again

By Washington Examiner April 3, 2014 10:13 pm

This image provided by the United Space Alliance shows the launch of a weather satellite, the Atlas V rocket carrying the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-19 spacecraft Thursday April 3, 2014, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The U.S. military weather satellite is headed for for a polar orbit. (AP Photo/ United Space Alliance, Bill Hartenstein)

US defense weather satellite launched

By Washington Examiner April 3, 2014 7:09 pm

A Way to Sanction the Russians

A Way to Sanction the Russians

By Daniel Halper March 22, 2014 10:10 am