It is unclear, but possible, if the new role will give Musk direct oversight of the FAA or NASA." Musk, who is currently one of President-elect Donald Trump's closest allies, was named to run a ...

The DARPA-NASA nuclear thermal propulsion project is extending its time frame for an on-orbit demonstration. Credit: Lockheed Martin A vision to accelerate U.S. access to cislunar space and the ...

Bill Nelson, NASA administrator, congratulated SpaceX for the completion of its seventh test flight and second successful booster catch. "Spaceflight is not easy," he said on X, which is also ...

SpaceX aims to utilize Starship for lunar missions with NASA and eventually for crewed missions to Mars. A new version of SpaceX's Starship spacecraft was apparently destroyed during its first ...

The seven-engine, 320-foot New Glenn rocket — named for late astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the planet — blasted off a NASA launch pad in Florida on its first test flight ...

After a gap of more than a year, NASA successfully resumed spacewalks outside the International Space Station on Thursday. NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Suni Williams, dressed in pressurized NASA ...

The mission was expected to last six hours, with the second stage then placed in a safe condition to stay in a high, out-of-the-way orbit in accordance with NASA's practices for minimizing space junk.

Jeff Bezos’ space company launched its massive new rocket for the first time, aiming to advance the Amazon founder’s lifelong space-exploration ambitions. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ...

One of the two NASA astronauts stuck in space got a much-welcome change of scenery when she stepped out for her first spacewalk after seven months in orbit. Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore have ...

One of NASA's two stuck astronauts got a much welcomed change of scenery Thursday, stepping out on her first spacewalk since arriving at the International Space Station more than seven months ago.

Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida, soaring from the same pad used to launch NASA's Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft a half-century ago.

Britain is set to be the site of Europe’s first rocket launch after the UK regulator granted the first licence of its kind for a vertical take-off. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), a German rocket ...