Space

Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif.—A privately designed, unmanned rocket built to carry satellites was destroyed in an explosive fireball after suffering an “anomaly" off the California coast during its first ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The Federal Aviation Administration said Thursday that Virgin Galactic cannot launch anyone into space again until ...

An ever-swelling amount of space debris is threatening satellites that hover around Earth, making insurers leery of offering ...

SpaceX’s latest cargo delivery showed up at the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday after a day in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A SpaceX shipment of ants, avocados, and a human-sized robotic arm rocketed toward the International Space ...

BETHEL, Maine—A Maine museum will play host to a chunk of rock it said is the largest intact ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Blue Origin launched artwork painted on a capsule and a moon-landing navigation experiment into space Thursday, ...

WELLINGTON—New Zealand entrepreneur Peter Beck said his space firm Rocket Lab was the result of a lifelong quest ...

This is the moment Solar Orbiter passed Venus earlier this month. The images show a dark area of ...

Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit, a small satellite launch service provider, is going public through a merger with ...

Australian company Southern Launch will send a Taiwanese rocket into space in Australia’s first major launch since the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA is delaying a spacewalk at the International Space Station this week because of an undisclosed ...

By Entrepreneur Staff September 15, 2021 is the scheduled date for the launch of the Inspiration4 mission, the first to send ...

SOTOMO, Chile—After half an hour's windswept journey on foot and by boat through a craggy forested estuary to ...

WASHINGTON—NASA agreed on Thursday to temporarily halt work on a $2.9 billion lunar lander contract awarded to Elon ...

TOKYO—Japanese space agency scientists said Thursday they plan to bring soil samples back from the Mars region ahead ...

Astronomers researched a planetary system only 35 light-years away that contains rocky exoplanets, and they found that it ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said on Saturday the first orbital stack of the Starship rocket should be ready ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Boeing's astronaut capsule is grounded for months and possibly even until next year because of a ...

SAVANNAH, Ga.—The National Park Service is pushing back after a U.S. government report recommended approval of a launch ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA is blaming unusually soft rock for last week’s sampling fiasco on Mars. The Perseverance rover ...

By Entrepreneur Staff For a few months, the United States Space Agency (NASA) has had a history of ups ...

SANDSUKY, Ohio—A NASA research facility in Ohio has been renamed after astronaut Neil Armstrong, who was born in ...

NEW DELHI—An Indian rocket failed in its attempt Thursday to put a satellite into orbit to provide real-time ...

An Indian space agency lost an important earth observation satellite after it failed to ignite fully in its ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Northrop Grumman's latest space station delivery includes pizza for seven. The company's Cygnus cargo ship rocketed ...