Space business

Jeff Bezos’ personal wealth surpassed the $200 billion threshold this week, placing the Amazon CEO firmly ahead of Tesla CEO Elon Musk in their ongoing battle for the title of world’s richest person.

Blue Origin announced Thursday that it would soon begin to sell tickets for a chance to ride on the reusable suborbital rocket New Shepard.

SpaceX’s four astronauts had barely settled into orbit last Friday when they were ordered back into their spacesuits because of a potential collision with orbiting junk.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO teased Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on Monday night after it was reported that Bezos’ Blue Origin planned to contest a NASA award recently given to SpaceX.

NASA announced on Friday it has awarded a $2.9 billion contract to build the craft intended to transport U.S. astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time in decades to Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX.

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos posted a picture on Instagram standing next to his space company's New Shepard suborbital rocket booster after another successful flight test on Wednesday.

It’s easy to imagine a future where mankind travels to space as easily as to the supermarket, as seen in countless movies and TV shows, and private companies are already laying the groundwork for it – with hefty price tags but promising new technology.

NASA has announced that it will invest more than $45 million in 365 proposals from American small businesses as part of the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

Cathie Woods' ARK Investment is getting in on the space race, launching a Space ETF Tuesday that will focus on "leading, enabling, or benefitting from technologically enabled products and/or services that occur beyond the surface of the Earth."

SpaceX's SN11 rocket prototype crashed Tuesday while landing, causing debris to fall on the launch site in foggy conditions.

The House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said on Monday it is investigating a SpaceX commercial space launch that regulators determined violated U.S. safety requirements and its test license.

Researchers in Bordeaux are analyzing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid — along with 320 snippets of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines — that returned to Earth in January after a sojourn aboard the International Space Station.

The first house on the moon, an ambitious space-saving alternative to life on crowded Earth, could cost an out-of-this-world $60 million, according to a new study.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk caused a buzz on social media Tuesday when he added his voice to the ongoing debate over whether aliens exist.

Spacewalking astronauts had to take extra safety precautions Saturday after possibly getting toxic ammonia on their suits from the International Space Station’s external cooling system.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched even more Starlink internet satellites into orbit early Thursday morning.

NASA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have teamed up to produce a new tool that will provide farmers, meteorologists and researchers alike with access to high-resolution data on soil moisture.

SpaceX got closer than ever to a successful landing of one of its Starship prototypes last week, and the next test could be the one where the company finally nails it.

Billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged the fiery death of SpaceX's SN10 Starship prototype on Friday.

The third time was mostly the charm for SpaceX’s latest flight test.