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 announces ‘mother lode’ of new planets: 715

By Seth Borenstein February 26, 2014 11:02 pm

In this photo provided by NASA, the Cygnus supply ship is released from the International Space Station on Tuesday. (AP Photo/NASA)

Supply ship departs space station after 5 weeks

By Marcia Dunn February 18, 2014 5:00 am

This artist rendering released by NASA shows the NASA rover Opportunity on the surface of Mars. Opportunity landed on the red planet on Jan. 24, 2004 and is still exploring. Its twin Spirit stopped communicating in 2010. (AP Photo/NASA)

Opportunity still roving on Mars after a decade

By Washington Examiner January 23, 2014 7:08 pm

This artist rendering released by IMCCE (Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des Ephemerides) shows water plumes spewing from the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres. Scientists led by the European Space Agency observed the plumes and reported their findings in the Jan. 23, 2014 issue of the journal Nature. (AP Photo/ IMCCE, Paris Observatory, CNRS)

Telescope spies water plumes on dwarf planet Ceres

By alicia-chang January 22, 2014 8:58 pm

FILE - This undated image provided by the European Space Agency ESA shows an artist's impression of the Philae lander. Scientists at the European Space Agency are expecting their comet-chasing probe Rosetta to wake from almost three years of hibernation at 11 a.m. Monday Jan. 20, 2014 (1000 GMT; 5 a.m. EST) and phone home to say all is well. (AP Photo/ESA ATG medialab , Astrium E, Viktor, File)

Comet-chasing probe wakes up, signals Earth

By Frank Jordans January 20, 2014 9:04 pm

Military wants air traffic controllers for space

By Joel Gehrke January 15, 2014 5:00 am

In this image from video provided by NASA the Cygnus spacecraft resupply vehicle approaches the International Space Station. (AP/NASA)

Christmas delivery finally for space station

By Marcia Dunn January 13, 2014 5:00 am

This undated image made available by the European Space Agency and NASA on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014 shows galaxies in the Abell 2744 cluster, and blue galaxies behind it, distorted and amplified by gravitational lensing. The long-exposure image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows some of the intrinsically faintest and youngest galaxies ever detected in visible light. (AP Photo/ESA/NASA)

Long shots: Galaxies from 13.2 billion years ago

By Seth Borenstein January 7, 2014 10:29 pm

Since the end of the Space Shuttle program, NASA has done little to inspire Americans. (Getty images File)

Examiner Editorial: Put NASA back into manned spaceflight

By Washington Examiner December 16, 2013 5:00 am

Slogan for new spy satellite: ‘Nothing is beyond our reach’

By Charles Hoskinson December 6, 2013 5:00 am

This image provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center shows an artists rendering on how a gamma ray burst occurs with a massive star collapsing and creating a black hole and beaming out focused and deadly light and radiation bursts. Astronomers and space telescopes in April 2013 saw the biggest and brightest cosmic explosion ever witnessed, a large gamma ray burst. (AP Photo/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

‘Monster’ cosmic blast zipped harmlessly by Earth

By Seth Borenstein November 21, 2013 9:12 pm

NASA's Office of the Inspector General noted a concept at the agency known as the "Hubble philosophy" -- that as long as a project works, NASA will overlook time and budget overages. (AP Photo/NASA)

Complex math stumps NASA, wastes millions on incorrect contractor payments

By Michal Conger November 19, 2013 5:00 am