The rocket company’s effort to demonstrate payload deployment, land its upper stage and potentially achieve ...

Founded by crypto guru Jed McCaleb, Vast Space will run two missions to the International Space Station and aims to launch ...

Rood, University of Michigan An Arctic blast hitting the central and eastern U.S. in early January 2025 has been creating fiercely cold conditions in many places. Parts of North Dakota dipped to more ...

During his second inauguration speech, President Donald Trump endorsed a Mars mission as a part of America’s push into new ...

Robert A. Kopack, University of South Carolina If there is a leader in the aerospace industry, SpaceX is it. The company’s Crew Dragon and Cargo Dragon spacecrafts are the current go-to vehicles to ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

Ship 33 successfully ignited its six engines following stage separation and continued to space. However, shortly after ...

The first launch of an upgraded version of Starship’s upper stage ends with a loss of comms 91 miles up. Elon Musk says ...

A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury during a close flyby. BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, made its closest approach on January 8, 2025. Flying 295 km above Mercury, ...

That puts it into competition with SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, but not that company’s far larger, still in-development Starship ...

"Due to weather, we're now targeting Thursday, January 16 for Starship's seventh ... However, SpaceX has rapidly iterated on its design, reflecting its "fail fast, learn fast" philosophy.

SpaceX is set to launch its Starship craft on Thursday, 16 January, after weather delayed its critical test of the world’s biggest rocket. The 123-metre-tall rocket, which Elon Musk hopes to use to ...