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Space Business

Beyond SpaceX: The rising stars of the U.S. rocket industry

SpaceX continues to dominate headlines with its groundbreaking launch vehicles, but a new generation of U.S. rocket companies is quietly reaching for the stars.

George Dvorsky

Space Business

SpaceX granted FAA permission for second starship test flight

Having cleared all regulatory hurdles, SpaceX is set for a re-launch of its megarocket.

George Dvorsky

SpaceX’s Starship clears crucial hurdle in dramatic second flight test

George Dvorsky

What to expect during SpaceX’s second Starship test flight

George Dvorsky

10 ways the second SpaceX Starship test flight could go wrong

George Dvorsky

16 takeaways from the explosive second test of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket

George Dvorsky

What’s next for SpaceX’s Starship after explosive second launch

George Dvorsky

SpaceX’s leaked financials reveal Elon Musk’s appetite for growth

While other big tech firms pull back, SpaceX is spending big on R&D.

Tim Fernholz

SpaceX may test key technique for moon mission on Starship’s third flight

The NASA-funded refueling test would require the megarocket to reach new heights, as the space agency needs the technology for deep space missions.

George Dvorsky

Is SpaceX’s Starlink ready to launch an IPO?

A billionaire investor in SpaceX predicts its satellite business will go public in or around 2027.

Grete Suarez

Image for SpaceX’s latest mission is literally a startup incubator

Space Business

SpaceX’s latest mission is literally a startup incubator

Transporter ride-shares are how venture-backed space companies demonstrate success.

Tim Fernholz

🚀 Space Business: A lunar new year

January 25, 2024

🚀 Space Business: More consolidation in 2024?

January 18, 2024

🚀 Space Business: Payload problems

January 11, 2024

🚀 Space Business: Busy year ahead

January 4, 2024

🚀 Space Business: A year of milestones

December 28, 2023

🚀 Space Business: Secretive spacecraft

December 21, 2023

🚀 Space Business: Is the Lunar Anthropocene upon us?

December 14, 2023

🚀 Space Business: Rocket auroras

December 7, 2023

🚀 Space Business: Life after the ISS

November 30, 2023

🚀 Space Business: A lunar new year

January 25, 2024

🚀 Space Business: More consolidation in 2024?

January 18, 2024

🚀 Space Business: Payload problems

January 11, 2024

🚀 Space Business: Busy year ahead

January 4, 2024

🚀 Space Business: A year of milestones

December 28, 2023

🚀 Space Business: Secretive spacecraft

December 21, 2023

🚀 Space Business: Is the Lunar Anthropocene upon us?

December 14, 2023

🚀 Space Business: Rocket auroras

December 7, 2023

🚀 Space Business: Life after the ISS

November 30, 2023

How Amazon became the first tech giant in space

Jeff Bezos' quest to put the extra-terrestrial in e-commerce

Tim Fernholz

Did Jeff Bezos finally pick the right CEO to get Blue Origin to orbit?

Amazon veteran Dave Limp will take over Bezos' space conglomerate

Tim Fernholz

Amazon’s space venture hits milestone as Kuiper satellites successfully navigate orbit

A pair of prototype satellites launched to Earth orbit last month are maneuvering as intended, putting Amazon on track to meet FCC-mandated timeline.

George Dvorsky

Amazon teams up with SpaceX in unlikely satellite alliance

Confronted with a regulatory deadline, Amazon—in a twist of competitive fate—has secured three launches aboard rockets from its rival SpaceX.

George Dvorsky

Virgin Galactic’s first paid flight to space expected to launch with Italian Air Force onboard

Owen Bellwood

Airbus launches device to keep dead satellites from tumbling in space

Passant Rabie

Virgin Galactic still has meme stock power

Tim Fernholz

The Pentagon and NASA have no earthly idea what these flying metallic orbs really are

José Rodríguez Jr.

Virgin Galactic flew paying passengers to space. Does it matter?

Tim Fernholz

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is threatened by new design flaws

Tim Fernholz

Virgin Galactic’s first paid flight to space expected to launch with Italian Air Force onboard

Owen Bellwood

Airbus launches device to keep dead satellites from tumbling in space

Passant Rabie

Virgin Galactic still has meme stock power

Tim Fernholz

The Pentagon and NASA have no earthly idea what these flying metallic orbs really are

José Rodríguez Jr.

Virgin Galactic flew paying passengers to space. Does it matter?

Tim Fernholz

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is threatened by new design flaws

Tim Fernholz

Image for Virgin Galactic Hits Financial Turbulence as Richard Branson Halts Funding

Space Business

Virgin Galactic hits financial turbulence as Richard Branson halts funding

The company’s stock price plummeted following the billionaire’s announcement that he would no longer support his space tourism venture with cash injections.

George Dvorsky

Aviation Agencies

NASA to rewrite Mars sample return mission so it can actually happen

The space agency formed a response team following the release of a scathing report in late September.

Passant Rabie

First official Space Force painting features perplexing clash with enemy satellite

Passant Rabie

NASA’s SLS spending spree could jeopardize its return to the Moon: report

Owen Bellwood

DARPA is asking a $170 billion question about making money on the Moon

Tim Fernholz

Biden nominates a former Obama official to run the Federal Aviation Administration

David Koenig, AP Airlines Writer

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Aviation agencies

NASA wants to go to Mars on a nuclear-powered rocket

A rocket using low-enriched uranium could cut travel time to the Red Planet by a third.

Erin Marquis

Who’s in the US Space Force’s newest tech accelerator?

The three-month program focused on detecting space threats has kicked off with its first of four cohorts.

Grete Suarez

Live lobsters, tattoo guns, bowling balls and other weird things you can bring through TSA

Erin Marquis

NASA plans to visit a toxic Moon—here’s how it’s testing a ‘Dragonfly’ for the mission

Passant Rabie

Space Force’s elusive Spaceplane is launching on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy for the first time

Passant Rabie

NASA wants to melt Martian soil into 3D-printable building material

Amber DaSilva

Interstellar Life

We’re not racing to the Moon, we’re making it home

Humanity is dashing to the Moon once more, but this time with private players, a lunar habitat, and a trajectory for Mars.

Passant Rabie

Curing the space blues: Vive VR headset for astronauts’ mental health heads to ISS

A Vive Focus 3 headset, modified to treat homesickness in space, is set to launch to the ISS aboard SpaceX's CRS-29 mission on November 7.

Passant Rabie

Scientists grow mouse embryos in space for the first time

Scientists are exploring the possibilities of human reproduction in space, and while a new study shows promise, the scope of the research remains limited.

Passant Rabie

NASA is locking four science nerds into total isolation for a year

The scientists will attempt to grow food and live together ahead of Mars trip.

Erin Marquis

World’s most intense waterslide was designed to save crews from exploding Saturn V rockets

To get to the "rubber room" crews would need to drop nine stories along a waterslide

Erin Marquis

Enhanced space access means remarkable new science is on the horizon

Levitating conveyor belts, asteroid spaceships, and crater telescopes, oh my!

Isaac Schultz

In space, no one can smell your many, many farts

Erin Marquis

Spot the world’s most expensive toolkit as it floats free from the ISS

Owen Bellwood

Here’s how you take out the trash in space

Owen Bellwood

New wearable helps astronauts know up from down—trusting it is the hard part

Passant Rabie

Space Race

India is replacing Russia as a 21st-century space power

The Chandrayaan-3 Moon landing is the latest sign of the new geopolitics of space.

Tim Fernholz

India has unfinished business on the Moon

Tim Fernholz

North Korea can build rockets. Can it build a satellite?

Tim Fernholz

India beats Russia to the Moon’s South Pole

Ryan Erik King

China gears up to launch its sixth space station crew

Passant Rabie

Space Exploration

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Wild Theory Suggests Dark Matter Could Make Stars Immortal

We take it for granted that all stars eventually die, but a quirk involving dark matter suggests those near the galactic core may last forever.

Trippy NASA Visualization Takes You on a Journey Through the Iconic Pillars of Creation

The 3D visualization is the most detailed multi-wavelength video of the massive celestial structure.

A Bonus 'Hitchhiker' Will Come Back From Mars in Perseverance's Sample Tubes

Additional space in the tubes containing Martian rock could reveal insights into the gases that make up the Red Planet's atmosphere.

NASA Probe Spies Plumes Above Jupiter Moon's Lava Lakes

Infrared mapping tech aboard the spacecraft sheds light on the volcanic activity of Io, Jupiter's second-smallest Galilean moon

Harri Weber

Classical Astronomers Observed a Different Great Red Spot on Jupiter

The two massive storms were thought to be one and the same, but new research suggests the Great Red Spot formed more recently.

Waves of Methane Are Crashing on the Coasts of Saturn's Bizarre Moon Titan

Titan's large seas and lakes may be influenced by waves, but not the kind you could surf, according to new research.

Astronomers Witness a Supermassive Black Hole Roaring to Life

Over the past five years, the galaxy's nucleus has gone from serene to surging with energetic swirls, suggesting the emergence of a gigantic black hole.

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Space Exploration

16 iconic NASA photos that changed everything

From Earthrise and black holes to lunar footsteps and orbital handshakes, these images irrevocably altered our views of Earth, the cosmos, and ourselves.

George Dvorsky

The fun things you can do if you point a satellite’s camera anywhere but at the Earth

Maxar is rolling out its non-Earth imaging product to commercial customers.

Tim Fernholz

Crucial rocket parts end up crushed in a landfill, imperiling satellite mission

Two Vega rocket tanks vanished and were later found damaged and unusable.

George Dvorsky

Carl Sagan’s master of The Voyager Golden Record is for sale

The late astronomer’s personal master reel of the golden record hurtling through space is up for auction at Sotheby’s.

José Rodríguez Jr.

NASA’s Lucy ready to explore its first asteroid this week

The probe will conduct a close flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh on Wednesday to test its instruments as it steadily makes its way towards Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.

Passant Rabie