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

WATCH: NASA discovers Earth-sized, habitable planet in other solar system

By Julia Johnson January 11, 2023 6:31 pm

In this photo made available by NASA, the space shuttle Challenger launches the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite in 1984. On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, the U.S. space agency said the 38-year-old NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky, but the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is âvery low.â It's expected to come down Sunday night, give or take 17 hours.

An old NASA satellite is falling from the sky this weekend

By Misty Severi January 7, 2023 6:16 pm

Rare comet will be visible from Earth for first time since upper paleolithic period

By Julia Johnson January 7, 2023 9:00 am

Astronaut from first successful Apollo mission dead at 90

By Jack Birle January 4, 2023 12:44 am

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship onto a Long March-2F carrier rocket prepares to be transferred to the launching area of Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China, Oct. 7, 2021.

The new space race: NASA fears US is locked in battle for the moon with China

By Brady Knox January 2, 2023 9:13 pm

The light trail is seen in Goyang, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. South Korea's military confirmed it test-fired a solid-fueled rocket on Friday, after its unannounced launch triggered brief public scare of a suspected UFO appearance or a North Korean missile or drone flying.

South Korea’s unannounced rocket launch has people saying they saw UFOs

By Mike Brest December 30, 2022 9:15 pm

WATCH: Meteor flashes across Alaskan sky in last meteor shower of 2022

By Heather Hamilton December 22, 2022 2:44 pm

This Dec. 6, 2018, image made available by NASA shows the InSight lander.

NASA’s Mars lander goes dark after four years

By Luke Gentile December 20, 2022 10:23 pm

‘Earth’s ultimate adios’: Planet spiraling toward sun may give glimpse into Earth’s end

By Brady Knox December 19, 2022 10:04 pm

"The Pentagon has not received any orders with regards to Venezuela," said Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon Friday evening, according to CNN.

Pentagon’s UFO office has received hundreds of new reports

By Associated Press December 16, 2022 9:01 pm

NASA and Russia's space agency canceled a spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, on Dec. 14 on the International Space Station because of an apparent coolant leak from an attached space capsule.

Micrometeorite strike to blame for Russian space capsule coolant leak: Officials

By Associated Press December 15, 2022 2:52 pm

A meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Geminid meteor shower over an Orthodox church on the local cemetery near the village of Zagorie, some 110 km (69 miles) west of Minsk, Belarus, on Dec. 13, 2017.

Catch a glimpse of the strongest meteor shower of the year Tuesday night

By Julia Johnson December 13, 2022 8:56 pm