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.

Blue Ghost and New Glenn started off the year right. Many more launches are on the way, and many can be watched online.

For example, Jupiter is the most massive planet in our solar system. It’s so big, it could swallow 1,000 Earths. So it requires a very high escape speed: 133,100 mph (about 214,000 kilometers per hour ...

One of the big firsts in 2024 came from SpaceX as it finally managed to fly its Starship into space without blowing up.

A SpaceX Dragon crew vents and begins to exit the spacecraft for a spacewalk in this animation. Credit: SpaceX ...

SpaceX suspects a fire may have caused its Starship to break apart during liftoff and send trails of flaming debris near the Caribbean.

SpaceX has caught its Starship rocket back at the pad following liftoff. But the spacecraft launched on top Thursday was destroyed.

Footage of the incident, captured by a family vacationing in the Turks and Caicos, showed the wreckage leaving behind what one of the onlookers called a “rainbow” of debris.

The mission featured two robotic lunar landers: one from Texas-based Firefly Aerospace and another from the Japanese space ...

Project Hyperion Design Competition: envisioning interstellar generation ships for humanity's future in space and sustainable ...

Indian-origin NASA astronaut Sunita Williams returned to spacewalking after a 12-year break, stepping outside the ...

Astronauts Suni Williams and Nick Hague completed pivotal maintenance tasks on the International Space Station in their ...