In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

The global commercial launch industry landscape can be likened to “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” with SpaceX standing as ...

In June 2024, space tourism pioneer Virgin Galactic ( SPCE) launched its Unity spaceplane with a planeload of space tourists ...

SpaceX sent up the Space Coast’s 13th launch in 39 days so far this year, an average of one launch every three days. A Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 12-9 mission carrying 21 of the company’s ...

NASA and European scientists explain how they calculate the probability of the space rock 2024 YR4 impacting our planet, and why it’s not yet time to worry.

More than 3 billion years ago, when the Moon’s volcanic mare (the dark lunar “seas”) were formed, the Moon was rife with ...

Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for a lot of missions. These include ...

Blue Origin’s NS-29 mission simulated Moon gravity to support lunar research, with key experiments funded by NASA.

However, in lieu of a mass simulator, Astrobotic wanted to see if it could find a more useful payload. So as the company's ...

In a first, the Jeff Bezos-led spaceflight company simulated lunar gravity on a suborbital rocket to test various science ...

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home.