Spaceflight

SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time this year on Sunday, carrying a classified military payload to orbit for the United States Space Force.

Richard Branson reflected on his friendship with fellow billionaire and space entrepreneur, saying the SpaceX CEO once surprised him at his house in the middle of the night.

Two satellites designed to take photos of the earth developed by Airbus were lost on Tuesday night when their rocket ship failed and had to be manually destroyed.

NASA crews hope to move forward with the launch of its moon rocket Artemis I, scheduled to lift off on Wednesday morning, after sustaining damage during Hurricane Nicole.

New aerospace company Firefly Aerospace has successfully reached orbit with its new Alpha rocket. This was Firefly’s second launch attempt from California.

NASA will roll its Artemis I rocket back to the spacecraft's hangar at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, after delaying the launch over Hurricane Ian.

SpaceX will carry astronauts to the International Space State on five more missions after NASA awarded Elon Musk's company a $1.43 billion contract Wednesday.

NASA's Artemis 1 mission at Florida's Kennedy Space Center was scrubbed Monday, but the chances of launching later this week are "more than zero," officials say.

NASA has called off the scheduled launch of its Artemis 1 mission moon rocket Monday following technical and weather issues, including a problem with chilling an engine.

NASA and Boeing announced Thursday that the first crewed launch aboard the Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station will take place next year.

Jeff Bezos's space company Blue Origin will launch its sixth crewed flight aboard the New Shepard vessel into outer space on Thursday.

SpaceX has launched 46 Starlink satellites into orbit in California. The satellites came from a Falcon 9 rocket that took off out of the Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin completed its fifth crewed space launch Saturday, taking its passengers on a 10-minute suborbital joyride at about 350,000 feet.

NASA successfully launched Boeing's unmanned spacecraft Starliner bound for the International Space Station on Thursday, which NASA hopes will eventually carry astronauts.

The standup comedian and “Saturday Night Live” star might find himself performing for an audience of a select few after a report on Thursday said that Davidson, 28, is nearing a deal to accompany the Amazon founder on an intergalactic mission to experience zero gravity weightlessness during a commercial space trip.

Jeff Bezos' space exploration company, Blue Origin, on Tuesday tapped new crewmembers for its next launch into space aboard the New Shepard, including TV personality and former NFL player Michael Strahan

Elon Musk says SpaceX hopes Starship's first orbital flight will happen in January

SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday evening, less than 24 hours after it launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Apparently, space travel is a popular desire among nearly half of American adults.