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Elon Musk: 'SpaceX is building floating, superheavy-class spaceports' for its...
This week SpaceX posted two new jobs for "offshore operations engineers" in Brownsville, Texas.Elon Musk, who founded the aerospace company in 2002, all but confirmed in a tweet on Tuesday that the...
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A new spaceship-on-a-balloon startup wants to float you high enough to see...
Space Perspective hopes to balloon wealthy passengers to an altitude of about 100,000 feet, where the darkness of space and the curvature of Earth are visible.The startup, which emerged from hiding on...
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The Pentagon says it needs to be ready should an adversary try to fry...
The Department of Defense has released a new Defense Space Strategy outlining its plans to maintain a competitive edge in space, which it says is becoming a contested domain and an "arena of potential...
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Read the 40-word letter astronaut Sally Ride wrote to NASA that led to her...
A handwritten letter led Sally Ride to become the first American woman in space.She wrote to NASA after she saw an article about the space agency recruiting women in Stanford University's student...
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Virgin Galactic inks a deal with NASA to help train private astronauts (SPCE)
Virgin Galactic said Monday it's signed a deal with NASA to train astronauts and support space missions. Investors cheered the news, sending shares higher by as much as 20%. Virgin is actively taking...
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New photos appear to show Elon Musk's 'UFO on a stick' device that will...
A Reddit user appears to have posted the first unambiguous photos of ground devices that connect to SpaceX's fleet of internet-beaming Starlink satellites.The person said they drove by the SpaceX site...
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NASA is opening its first-ever suborbital crew office to fly scientists,...
NASA is pushing to commercialize space travel to lower the cost of getting astronauts to and from orbit.The US space agency is also opening up private access to the International Space Station and, to...
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NASA is offering up to $20,000 to anyone who can design a better space toilet...
NASA needs a new toilet for going to the moon — one that will work for all astronauts and function both in microgravity and on the lunar surface.The agency is crowdsourcing ideas for the toilet with a...
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin thinks it can beat SpaceX back to the moon with a...
NASA is rushing to return astronauts to the moon's surface in 2024 with a program called Artemis.A spaceship and rocket system is already being built to fly crews to the moon. However, NASA started a...
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Austin startup Hypergiant is launching mini-satellites that will update the...
The Austin startup Hypergiant is launching a fleet of mini-satellites to update the software on the Air Force's spacecraft.The first mini-satellite in the Chameleon Constellation will launch early...
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Virgin Galactic thinks it can leverage its space-tourism program into a $15...
Virgin Galactic is continuing to test its SpaceShipTwo system for rocketing passengers to the edge of space in spite of the coronavirus pandemic.But the company, which is now partnering with NASA to...
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Virgin Galactic is unveiling the cabin of its rocketship that will fly people...
Virgin Galactic is gearing up to launch paying passengers to the edge of space aboard a reusable winged rocket ship called SpaceShipTwo.The publicly traded spaceflight and space tourism company,...
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A stunning NASA time-lapse reveals a decade of the sun's solar flares,...
A mesmerizing time-lapse video from NASA chronicles the sun's activity over the last decade.Each second in the video represents a year of the sun's life, making it look like a rotating disco ball....
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'I am incredibly sorry that we failed': Rocket Lab's 13th space mission...
Rocket Lab, a private spaceflight company that launches smaller payloads from New Zealand, failed to deliver seven satellites to orbit on Saturday.The company's Electron rocket failed when its upper...
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Elon Musk and other competitors rushed to support Rocket Lab after the...
Rocket Lab, a private spaceflight firm in New Zealand, failed to deliver seven satellites to orbit following a launch on Saturday.The company's founder and CEO, Peter Beck, publicly apologized on...
View ArticleIncredible animation shows just how big supermassive black holes can get
Black holes are the densest objects in the universe, which gives them a powerful gravitational pull on the space around them.They can be millions of times larger than suns and planets, or as small as a...
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Aerial photos of SpaceX's Starship site reveal the stunning evolution of its...
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, hopes to use a new steel rocket system called Starship to launch people to Mars, the moon, and careen passengers around Earth at hypersonic speeds.To develop Starship,...
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Space tech fund Seraphim Capital ran its 600-hour accelerator entirely online...
Space tech VC firm Seraphim Capital hosted its most recent accelerator programme, Space Camp, entirely online due to the coronavirus. The fund says that speaking to promising startups over video chat...
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NASA operates a fleet of Gulfstream private jets used to shuttle astronauts...
NASA operates a fleet of Gulfstream private jets most notably seen when flying astronauts to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.Shuttling astronauts is just one of the missions that...
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The freshly discovered Comet Neowise is now streaking toward Earth and...
A newly discovered comet is streaking past Earth, providing a stunning nighttime show after buzzing the sun and expanding its tail.Comet Neowise swept within Mercury's orbit a week ago. Its close...
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