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

This artist's rendering provided by World View Enterprises on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013 shows their design for a capsule lifted by a high-altitude balloon up 19 miles into the air for tourists. Company CEO Jane Poynter said people would pay $75,000 to spend a couple hours looking down at the curve of the Earth. (AP Photo/World View Enterprises)

Space Perspective to take visitors through the atmosphere in balloons

By Charles Hilu July 3, 2021 1:00 pm

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos cashed out just over $671 million of stock this week by liquidating over 1 million of his own shares in the company.

Bezos space flight selects female aviator as final participant on space trip

By Mike Brest July 1, 2021 6:10 pm

NASA sends Hawaiian squid into space

By Charles Hilu June 26, 2021 1:00 pm

In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo, British entrepreneur Richard Branson poses with SpaceShipTwo at a Virgin Galactic hangar at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif.

FAA clears Virgin Galactic to fly passengers to space as commercial spaceflight race intensifies

By Zach Halaschak June 25, 2021 3:15 pm

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tweeted late Sunday: "In 2018, we will not only intensify the struggle against Trumpism, we will increase our efforts to spread the progressive vision in every corner of the land." ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Jeff Bezos and the $28 million space ride triggered Bernie Sanders

By Mark Whittington June 24, 2021 4:00 am

According to the flyer, Cornell's Safe Place project aims "to affirm LGBTQ identities and lives and promote and affirmative and supportive environment," and "to use inclusive language, avoid stereotyping, and not assume everyone is heterosexual," among other goals. (iStock by Getty Images)

Cornell offers course exploring astronomy through lens of ‘racial blackness’

By Carly Ortiz-Lytle June 23, 2021 6:22 pm

Petition calling on Bezos to stay in space and never return to Earth receives thousands of signatures

By Michael Lee June 22, 2021 7:15 pm

ISS Solar Array Installation

By Washington Examiner Staff June 21, 2021 4:53 pm

Elon Musk speaks at the Automotive News World Congress.

Elon Musk renting $50,000 house in Texas after selling real estate holdings

By Charles Hilu June 15, 2021 9:17 pm

Retired Cmdr. David Fravor told CNN Tuesday night that the UFO was a "white object, oblong, pointing north, moving erratically." (Screenshot, CNN)

Ex-government chief for UFO investigations: US considering extraterrestrial hypothesis

By Tom Rogan June 15, 2021 10:00 am

Houston, we have a problem, and it's the patriarchy.

Auction winner spends $28 million to join Bezos on first trip to space

By Mike Brest June 12, 2021 7:43 pm

Gohmert asks Forest Service official if US can alter Earth’s orbit to affect climate

By Jeremy Beaman June 9, 2021 7:05 pm