SpaceX just got permission to ramp up launches of its Starship megarocket from South Texas. On Tuesday (May 6), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released its final environmental assessment
SpaceX just got permission to ramp up launches of its Starship megarocket from South Texas. On Tuesday (May 6), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released its final environmental assessment
Stratolaunch Systems has gone hypersonic — twice. Stratolaunch took its uncrewed Talon-A2 prototype to hypersonic speeds for the first time this past December, then repeated the feat in March, the
Just over a month since the return of the first astronauts to orbit Earth’s poles, SpaceX has released a four-hour video highlighting what that looked like from space. SpaceX launched
A new flight plan has been filed for a NASA winged orbiter and its jumbo jet transport, four decades after the iconic combination departed on its one and only international
The asteroid Vesta could be a huge chunk of planet that was blasted off its parent world and sent spinning into space in the aftermath of a titanic collision four-and-a-half
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 crew member Nichole Ayers took this photo of the forward portion of the International Space Station during a spacewalk on May 1, 2025. (Image credit:
The United States’ first teleoperated rover to reach the moon’s surface is rolling out as a Lego model this summer, together with two futuristic vehicles inspired by real-life robotic lunar
It has been more than a decade since scientists discovered that Yellowstone holds huge amounts of helium gas, but questions remain over whether this helium could ever be extracted to
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower peaked on May 6, delighting skywatchers with a spectacular cosmic light show as debris from Halley’s Comet careened into Earth’s atmosphere to form majestic ‘shooting
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