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

President Trump shows off a "Space Policy Directive" after signing it during a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White House on June 18 in Washington.

Despite mirth, memes, and mockery, Trump’s ‘Space Force’ is no farce

By Jamie McIntyre July 1, 2018 4:00 am

At Senate Armed Services, low enthusiasm for Trump’s Space Force

By Travis J. Tritten June 26, 2018 8:01 pm

Astronauts Neil Armstrong, left, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., place an American flag on the surface of the moon Sunday July 20, 1969, near the lunar lander that brought them to the lunar surface.

Military recruiters already signing up ‘Space Force’

By Paul Bedard June 26, 2018 12:43 pm

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, April 2, 2018. The spacecraft is on its 14th operational cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Trump makes Commerce Department the new space agency

By Sean Higgins June 26, 2018 4:01 am

President Trump shows off a "Space Policy Directive" after signing it during a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White House on Monday in Washington.

Trump’s Space Policy Directive No. 3 is good news for nimble Elon Musk, bad news for goliaths like Boeing and Lockheed

By Philip Wegmann June 22, 2018 9:14 pm

Wilbur Ross: Commerce could take over Pentagon space junk mission within a year

By Travis J. Tritten June 22, 2018 2:57 pm

Invited guest Robin Lee walks out of the cabin of the SpaceX Dragon V2 spacecraft at the SpaceX headquarters on May 29, 2014, in Hawthorne, California.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX wins $130 million Air Force contract

By Joe Williams June 22, 2018 2:05 pm

How to protect the Space Force from a critical threat: Crony capitalism

By Ryan Ellis June 22, 2018 4:00 am

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova speaks during a news conference at United Nations headquarters, Friday, Sept. 22, 2017.

Russia: Trump courts ‘military confrontation in outer space’ with Space Force order

By Joel Gehrke June 20, 2018 2:09 pm

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang speaks during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing.

China warns Trump about dangers of new Space Force

By Joel Gehrke June 19, 2018 5:02 pm

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to speak to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, en route to a campaign rally in Manchester, N.H.

Armed services committees caught off guard by Trump’s Space Force order

By Travis J. Tritten June 18, 2018 10:13 pm

President Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018, in Washington.

Not just a ‘whim and a prayer’: Expert says what Trump can and can’t do on Space Force

By Jamie McIntyre June 18, 2018 7:27 pm