Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.

At long last, Blue Origin has an orbital ... SpaceX's most recent Flight Test 7 concluded with its Super Heavy booster successfully completing a "tower landing" on Mechazilla, but the Starship ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Wednesday pushed back its latest orbital flight test of Starship, the colossal prototype rocket the company hopes will help humans colonize Mars. "Due to weather, we're now ...

The rivalry between the world's two richest men is going cosmic. After Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin nailed its first-ever orbital flight, Elon Musk's SpaceX is seizing back the spotlight on Thursday ...

After Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin nailed its first-ever orbital flight, Elon Musk's SpaceX is seizing back the spotlight on Thursday with the latest launch of Starship, the gargantuan next-generation ...

ORLANDO, Florida—The U.S. Space Force anticipates launches from its two continental spaceports to increase by 25% to 30% over ...

Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 ...

SpaceX's large spacecraft, Starship, failed its Earth orbital test flight. However, it managed to successfully recover the rocket that had failed during the previous test flight, alleviating some ...

The vessel we currently refer to as "Starship" used ... company's moonshot goals will require orbital fueling operations that have not yet been developed. The third test flight included an ...

open image in gallery Starship Flight 7 saw SpaceX catch the Super ... test after its engines began to shut off while approaching orbital velocity. Measuring two metres taller than its ...

Credit: SpaceX Including four near-orbital flight tests of SpaceX’s Starship-Super Heavy system, global launch activity climbed to 263 orbital launch attempts in 2024, with all but five missions ...

It was supposed to attempt to reach near orbital speeds and deploy 10 dummy ... Thursday’s mission marked the shortest Starship test flight since November 2023, when SpaceX lost the vehicle ...