Space

Update for 8 p.m. EDT: If you’re looking for coverage of SpaceX’s successful SAOCOM 1B launch earlier tonight, read our full story here. Scroll down for a videoreplay.

Rocket Lab is back in action.

Congress in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act requires an annual update on the $150 million Space C2 program.

On Aug. 30, 1992, astronomers spotted an object orbiting the sun beyond Pluto for the very first time. It was the first Kuiper Belt object ever detected.

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is assigned to Boeing’s Starliner crew, a new study suggests a supernova caused the mass extinction at the end of Earth’s Devonian period and NASA tells the public to not be scared of the election-day asteroid because it’s small. These are some of the top stories […]

The companies have very ambitious goals of achieving a human presence on the moon.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is preparing for a potential launch doubleheader on Sunday (Aug. 30), and you can watch the action live online.  

With a first successful hop test under their belts using a full-scale prototype, SpaceX is pressing ahead with the testing of the Starship. Tomorrow (on Sunday, August 30th), SpaceX will be attempting to make a second 150 meter (500 ft) hop test, this time with their sixth Starship prototype (SN6). […]

Creating oxygen in space isn’t as hard as you think.