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

SpaceX chief engineer Elon Musk, second from left, talks to the media with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA astronauts crew Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, right, in front of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, about the progress to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station, from American soil, as part of the agencyâs commercial crew program at SpaceX headquarters, in Hawthorne, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019.

SpaceX launching Saudi astronauts on private flight to space station

By Associated Press May 21, 2023 8:34 pm

Blue Origin wins NASA contract for Artemis V Moon mission

By Jack Birle May 19, 2023 7:10 pm

An image of the Moon captured May 3, 2023, by CAPSTONE, short for Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation, while the spacecraft was near its closest approach to the Moonâs North Pole. The center of the image is approximately located at 25Â° N, 85Â° E on the lunar surface. Credits: Â©Advanced Space 2023, all rights reserved.

NASA moves closer to developing GPS system for moon exploration

By Eden Villalovas May 19, 2023 5:03 pm

White dwarf star explodes after feeding off helium-rich material from companion star

By Asher Notheis May 18, 2023 7:16 pm

This diagram made available by NASA shows the estimated trajectory of asteroid 2023 BU, in red, affected by the earth's gravity, and the orbit of geosynchronous satellites, in green. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

NASA says airliner-sized asteroid to pass Earth on Tuesday

By Brady Knox May 16, 2023 12:30 am

Hubble Space Telescope captures massive galaxy cluster

By Eden Villalovas May 12, 2023 6:28 pm

Debris falling over Japan from Chinese rocket launched last year: Report

By Jenny Goldsberry May 11, 2023 5:19 pm

In this illustration of an ultra-luminous X-ray source, two rivers of hot gas are pulled onto the surface of a neutron star. Strong magnetic fields, shown in green, may change the interaction of matter and light near neutron starsâ surface, increasing how bright they can become.

Object over 10 million times brighter than sun baffles scientists

By Brady Knox May 10, 2023 10:10 pm

Shenzhou 9 spacecraft rocket launches from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Jiuquan, China, Saturday, June 16, 2012. China sent its first woman and two other astronauts into space Saturday to work on a temporary space station for about a week, in a key step toward becoming only the third nation to set up a permanent base in orbit. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Mysterious Chinese spacecraft makes return after 276-day journey

By Brady Knox May 10, 2023 7:30 pm

Virgin Galactic is set to begin commercial space flights in June 2023.

Tourism company to launch commercial spaceflights this year

By Brady Knox May 8, 2023 10:31 pm

NASA captures first ever image of inner debris ring around Fomalhaut star

By Eden Villalovas May 8, 2023 8:02 pm

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, left, and Haley Esparza, ride horseback as they visit SpaceX's Starship as it is readied for launch at Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Wednesday, April 19, 2023.

SpaceX vs. the birds: Environmental activists sue FAA over Texas rocket launch

By Conn Carroll May 5, 2023 11:03 am