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

NASA’s Webb Telescope captures new image of the Crab Nebula

By Jack Birle October 30, 2023 10:36 pm

In this April 24, 2021 file photo made available by NASA, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule approaches the International Space Station for docking.

Junk science: Space trash is complicating the future of the planet

By Brady Knox October 25, 2023 1:32 am

Jupiter from NASAâs James Webb Space Telescopeâs Near-Infrared Camera.

Scientists discover new jet stream in Jupiter’s atmosphere using Webb Telescope

By Jack Birle October 19, 2023 11:23 pm

The planets Saturn, center-left, and Jupiter, center-right, are shown between a wind turbine and Milky Way just after midnight, Monday, July 27, 2020, near Vantage, Washington. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

City-sized comet regrows horns following volcanic eruptions on surface

By Asher Notheis October 16, 2023 10:12 pm

NASA launches space probe to asteroid Psyche, which could be worth $10,000 quadrillion

By Misty Severi October 13, 2023 5:38 pm

An annular eclipse is viewed from a waterfront park in Yokohama, Japan, near Tokyo, Monday, May 21, 2012.

Annular ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse to be visible this weekend

By Asher Notheis October 11, 2023 5:25 pm

An infrared image of NGC 346 from NASAâs James Webb Space Telescopeâs Mid-Infrared Instrument traces emission from cool gas and dust.

NASA releases new image from Webb telescope of star-forming region

By Jack Birle October 10, 2023 6:23 pm

An image released from NASA's Hubble telescope on Oct. 2, 2023, of a vibrant virgo cluster galaxy.

NASA releases stunning new images for Hubble telescope’s ‘galaxy week’

By Jack Birle October 6, 2023 8:54 pm

A prototype spacesuit is displayed Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in Houston. NASA selected Axiom Space to design the spacesuits that its moonwalking astronauts will wear when they step onto the lunar surface in a few years.

Prada to design NASA’s lunar spacesuits for a moon mission

By Eden Villalovas October 5, 2023 7:00 pm

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL).

Alabama lawmaker intends to withhold funds for permanent Space Command HQ in Colorado

By Mike Brest September 28, 2023 9:39 pm

FILE - From left, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, crew members of the mission to the International Space Station, walk to the rocket prior to the launch of Soyuz-2.1 rocket, at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. The three are expected to return to Earth on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, after being stuck in space for just over a year after their original capsule was hit by space junk. The 180-day mission turned into a 371-day stay.

NASA astronaut and cosmonauts return to Earth after record stay in space

By Rachel Schilke September 27, 2023 3:55 pm

Recovery team members examine a capsule containing NASA's first asteroid samples before it is taken to a temporary clean room at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. The Osiris-Rex spacecraft released the capsule following a seven-year journey to asteroid Bennu and back.

NASA spacecraft brings asteroid sample from deep space back to Earth for study

By Asher Notheis September 26, 2023 2:22 pm