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Trading begins Friday in SpaceX's initial public offering, the largest stock sale of its kind in history, in a milestone that is expected to make founder Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire and open one of the most closely held…
3 MIN READFive of seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station were ordered Friday afternoon to take shelter in the docked SpaceX Crew Dragon ‘Freedom’ after an air leak in the Russian segment worsened and NASA objected to the repair…
3 MIN READSpaceX is set to go public with a $1.75 trillion valuation, but the rocket and satellite company lost a crucial advantage on Thursday when S&P Dow Jones Indices said it would not fast-track the shares into the S&P 500 index. Without…
4 MIN READAs SpaceX prepares for its initial public offering this month, investors are looking beyond Elon Musk's company to other space economy players. Rocket Lab, a Nasdaq-listed launch provider, has emerged as a leading contender with a growing…
3 MIN READSpaceX has set an estimated share price of $135 for its upcoming initial public offering, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, valuing the company at roughly $1.75 trillion. The company expects to begin…
4 MIN READNASA has declared the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Environment (MAVEN) satellite unrecoverable and its mission concluded, nearly six months after losing contact with the spacecraft. The agency held a media teleconference Wednesday to…
3 MIN READBlue Origin said Tuesday that the explosion of its New Glenn rocket during a test firing last week at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station did not damage the launch pad's fuel tanks or other critical ground infrastructure, though a lightning…
3 MIN READCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA on Tuesday outlined the first phase of a planned permanent moon base, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts to four U.S. companies to deliver landers, rovers and drones to the lunar surface, with…
3 MIN READNPR’s “Spacing Out” space nerd club segment on May 25, 2026 highlighted new James Webb Space Telescope results on Neptune’s moon Nereid, a hot Jupiter-like exoplanet’s day-to-night cloud pattern, and what auroras can signal about solar…
3 MIN READSpaceX launched its biggest and most powerful Starship yet on a test flight Friday, sending the upgraded vehicle into the Indian Ocean after a mission that included mock Starlink satellite releases. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joined…
3 MIN READSpaceX launched its biggest, upgraded Starship yet on a test flight Friday from the southern tip of Texas, sending a redesigned rocket toward the Indian Ocean and releasing 20 mock Starlink satellites midflight. NASA Administrator Jared…
3 MIN READSpaceX will launch its Starship rocket from South Texas on Friday after scrubbing the planned liftoff on Thursday moments before launch due to a problem with the launch tower, NPR reported. The company’s next flight will be the first test…
3 MIN READIndex providers are rewriting rules to add the largest initial public offerings to their benchmarks within days of trading, a change that analysts and academics warn could force index funds to buy tens of billions of dollars in newly…
3 MIN READSpaceX on Wednesday disclosed plans for an initial public offering that could become one of the largest stock sales ever, with Elon Musk seeking to take the company public while it continues to post large losses. A U.S. filing shows SpaceX…
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SpaceX launched an upgraded Starship on a test flight Friday from the southern tip of Texas, aiming to move toward NASA’s moon program. The company’s redesign, counting 20 mock Starlink satellites, reached the Indian Ocean despite some…
3 MIN READSpaceX has filed prospectus documents for a proposed initial public offering that it says could be the largest ever, with Elon Musk’s plan tied to milestones for a future compensation package. The filing includes detailed financial…
3 MIN READElon Musk announced plans for SpaceX to raise money by taking the company public, according to a U.S. filing made public this week. The prospectus shows SpaceX is still losing billions of dollars even as it lays out a path tied to…
3 MIN READSpaceX has filed a 250-page prospectus for what could be the largest initial public offering in history, revealing plans for interplanetary travel and spending that exceeds the economic output of some countries. The IPO is expected to…
3 MIN READSpaceX is set to fly a heavily redesigned Starship on Friday after scrubbing a planned launch at the last minute, as the company prepares for a potential initial public offering. The new rocket will use dozens of new Raptor 3 engines and…
4 MIN READSpaceX filed financial information with regulators as it prepares for a potential initial public offering in mid-June, according to NPR reporting. The documents describe blockbuster spending tied to rockets and to the company’s AI…
3 MIN READSpaceX announced plans for what could be one of the biggest initial public offerings ever, as Elon Musk takes the company public despite years of heavy losses. A regulatory filing shows SpaceX lost $2.6 billion from operations last year on…
3 MIN READResearchers led by Steve Prabu of the University of Oxford have measured the instantaneous power of black hole jets for the first time. According to a study published in Nature Astronomy, the jets from Cygnus X-1, a relatively nearby black…
4 MIN READNASA's Psyche spacecraft will execute a close gravity-assist flyby of Mars on Friday, passing within 2,800 miles of the planet's surface at more than 12,000 miles per hour as it slingshots toward a rare metal asteroid in the outer asteroid…
3 MIN READCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will swing past Mars this week to use the planet’s gravity for a boost on its journey to the rare metal asteroid Psyche, snapping thousands of pictures as practice for the main encounter…
4 MIN READA new image from NASA's Webb Space Telescope reveals the brilliant, glowing core of the spiral galaxy Messier 77, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cetus.
3 MIN READNASA released a new image from its James Webb Space Telescope showing the spiral galaxy Messier 77 about 45 million light-years away. The picture, released this week, highlights the galaxy’s bright active nucleus and the extreme heat of…
3 MIN READUn nuevo estudio reporta que un pequeño objeto helado más allá de Plutón, llamado (612533) 2002 XV93, podría albergar una atmósfera tenue y persistente. El hallazgo se basa en observaciones realizadas en 2024 desde Japón mientras el objeto…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said the Pentagon will soon release additional records related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, fueling interest and skepticism amid ongoing efforts to declassify such material. Speaking at a White House event…
3 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said the Pentagon is preparing to release what he called “very interesting” government files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, reigniting public speculation about extraterrestrial life even as the former head of…
4 MIN READPresident Donald Trump said the Pentagon is preparing to release some “very interesting” UFO files uncovered by his administration, during remarks at a White House event celebrating NASA astronauts. He also previously directed federal…
3 MIN READNASA’s Artemis II Orion capsule returned to Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, nearly a month after carrying four astronauts around the moon on the first crewed lunar trip in more than half a century. The spacecraft’s crew, dubbed…
3 MIN READIn an interview with The Associated Press, Apollo moonwalker Harrison “Jack” Schmitt said the next generation should treat the return to the moon as a challenge to leave “footsteps like these” for future explorers. Schmitt, 90, discussed…
3 MIN READThe U.S. National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab released a new image of the Sombrero galaxy on Friday, showing the popular, hat-shaped spiral galaxy in enhanced color. The photo was taken by a telescope in Chile about four years ago, with…
3 MIN READA newly analyzed interstellar visitor, Comet 3I/Atlas, likely formed in a cold, isolated corner of the Milky Way before the star system where it is traveling toward Earth. Using observations from the ALMA observatory, astronomers reported…
3 MIN READBlue Origin grounded its New Glenn rocket after a weekend launch failed to place a satellite into the right orbit, leaving the payload doomed, the company said Monday. The company blamed a bad engine on the rocket’s upper stage and said…
3 MIN READThe Lyrid meteor shower reaches its peak Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, offering skywatchers a chance to see 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour streaking across the spring sky. The display will be visible across the globe, but views…
3 MIN READCape Canaveral, Fla., photographer Chris O’Meara describes how a remote camera rig, triggered by rocket-engine sound, captured the Artemis II launch and the birds taking flight as the rocket lifted off.
3 MIN READLos cuatro astronautas de Artemis II pusieron fin el viernes a la primera misión lunar tripulada en más de medio siglo con un amerizaje en el océano Pacífico, luego de un regreso con récords de velocidad y distancia desde la Luna, según la…
4 MIN READMichigan officials say the state is using momentum from NASA’s Artemis II mission to seed its first Space Innovation Hub, aiming to connect and grow space-centered businesses across the state. The Michigan Economic Development Corp. is…
3 MIN READThe Artemis II astronauts asked the International Astronomical Union for permission to name two lunar craters, following a tradition that reaches back to Apollo 8. Commander Reid Wiseman’s crew proposed one crater be named “Carroll” after…
3 MIN READArtemis II’s four astronauts will fly past the moon on Monday after launching April 1 on NASA’s first crewed trip to the moon since 1972, aiming to beat Apollo 13’s record distance from Earth. The mission’s roughly six-hour flyby will…
3 MIN READCanadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen said Artemis II crewmates and their families watched the film “Project Hail Mary” ahead of the mission’s lunar fly-around. Hansen praised the movie during a Canadian Space Agency televised event and said…
3 MIN READArtemis II astronauts on Monday completed a lunar flyby on a return trajectory that set a new distance record, surpassing Apollo 13’s farthest point. The mission, NASA’s first return to the moon since the Apollo era, included a total solar…
3 MIN READHOUSTON (AP) — The four Artemis II astronauts made history Tuesday by calling their friends aboard the International Space Station as they headed home from the moon, marking the first moonship-to-spaceship radio linkup, NASA said.
3 MIN READLa misión Artemis II, con cuatro astronautas, regresó a casa el lunes por la noche tras observar desde la órbita lunar la cara oculta de la Luna y establecer un nuevo récord de distancia. Durante un sobrevuelo que incluyó una interrupción…
4 MIN READA day after Artemis II completed a historic lunar flyaround, NASA released new photos taken by the U.S.-Canadian crew. The images include “Earthset,” showing Earth setting behind the moon, and another capturing a total solar eclipse from…
3 MIN READThe Artemis II crew is more than halfway to the moon, preparing for a fly-around that will send the Orion capsule farther than previous Apollo missions. But NASA says the mission’s toilet malfunction has resurfaced, and engineers suspect…
3 MIN READNearly a century after the first widely reported U.S. UFO sighting, the American story of “UFOs” has continued to evolve through government investigations, military radar and pilot reports, and waves of popular movies and TV. The saga…
3 MIN READFrom the first widely reported UFO sighting in 1947 to a 2024 Pentagon review that found no evidence of alien life, the American UFO story has repeatedly shifted between government investigation, public reports and pop-culture portrayals.
3 MIN READThe Artemis II astronauts are more than halfway to the moon but are dealing with another malfunction in the Orion capsule’s bathroom, mission officials said April 4. Until the toilet is fixed, Mission Control has instructed the crew to…
3 MIN READThe Artemis II crew is more than halfway to the moon, but NASA said the Orion capsule’s toilet has malfunctioned again, requiring Mission Control to direct astronauts to use additional backup urine-collection bags. Debbie Korth, the Orion…
3 MIN READCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 3, 2026—NASA released the first downlinked images from the Artemis II astronauts on Friday, 1½ days into the mission’s lunar outbound trip. The photos show Earth curved in one window view and the full globe with…
3 MIN READCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines Thursday night and blazed toward the moon, breaking free of Earth orbit after spending about a day testing the Orion capsule. The translunar injection came 25 hours…
3 MIN READCuatro astronautas despegaron el miércoles desde el Centro Espacial Kennedy, iniciando Artemis II, el primer vuelo lunar tripulado de la NASA en décadas. La misión incluye tres estadounidenses y un canadiense a bordo del cohete Space…
3 MIN READA Long Beach aerospace firm, ExLabs, is scheduled to design a spacecraft launched in April 2028 to rendezvous with the near-Earth asteroid Apophis, aiming to make contact as the rock passes close to Earth in April 2029. The company, based…
3 MIN READLa NASA inició el miércoles los preparativos para lanzar el cohete Artemis II, la primera misión lunar tripulada de Estados Unidos en más de medio siglo, tras semanas de demoras por problemas técnicos. En Cabo Cañaveral, las autoridades…
3 MIN READFour astronauts launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday on Artemis II, NASA’s first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century. The 10-day flight will carry three Americans and one Canadian around the moon and back,…
3 MIN READNASA began the countdown Monday for Artemis II, a mission NASA says will send four astronauts on a lunar flyby and return without any planned stops. The launch is scheduled for Wednesday evening from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, after…
3 MIN READCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s next lunar mission crew includes commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who will fly around the moon on a mission…
3 MIN READThe Artemis II astronauts, including Commander Reid Wiseman and fellow crew members Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada’s Jeremy Hansen, arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday ahead of the program’s first astronaut moon…
3 MIN READNASA has named the four astronauts who will fly on Artemis, the agency’s first mission to the moon in more than half a century, according to a Associated Press look at the crew. The commander, pilot and mission specialists include a woman,…
4 MIN READMeteorite hunters fanned out across Ohio after a fireball over Valley City was followed by a sonic boom that rattled buildings, officials said. The meteoroid broke apart around 9 a.m. Tuesday and NASA said it was a near-6-foot (1.8-meter)…
3 MIN READNASA moved its repaired Artemis moon rocket from the hangar toward the pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a hoped-for early April launch, aiming to fly four astronauts on a lunar flyaround. The Space Launch System began an…
3 MIN READNASA cleared its Artemis moon rocket Thursday for an April launch attempt with four astronauts after completing additional repairs, NASA said. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket will roll out to the pad next week at Kennedy Space Center, with…
3 MIN READNASA cleared its Artemis moon rocket for an April launch attempt with four astronauts, the space agency said Thursday, after completing repairs. The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket is scheduled to roll out from its hangar to the pad next week…
3 MIN READAn old NASA science satellite, the Van Allen Probe A, plunged back through Earth’s atmosphere and reentered uncontrolled over the Pacific on Wednesday, according to the U.S. Space Force. NASA said it expected the 1,323-pound spacecraft to…
3 MIN READAn old NASA science satellite, Van Allen Probe A, plunged back into Earth’s atmosphere and reentered over the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. The U.S. Space Force said the spacecraft came in west of the Galapagos Islands.
3 MIN READThe Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday in a lawsuit challenging the state's authority to close Boca Chica Beach for SpaceX rocket launches, with justices pressing both sides on where constitutional limits on public beach…
4 MIN READNASA said Thursday that asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer poses any risk of crashing into the moon in 2032, after observations helped scientists refine its orbit. The agency said the asteroid will miss the moon by about 13,200 miles (21,200…
3 MIN READLunar rocks collected by Apollo astronauts more than half a century ago are helping scientists better understand the moon’s magnetic field, according to a new study published Wednesday. Researchers at the University of Oxford said the…
3 MIN READTotal lunar eclipse set for Tuesday will turn the moon blood red for skywatchers across North America, Central America and parts of South America, with partial stages visible elsewhere. The event, visible in different windows across time…
3 MIN READThe first medical evacuation of a space station mission prompted by an astronaut’s illness stemmed from a condition that NASA astronaut Mike Fincke says he experienced last month aboard the International Space Station. Fincke, who is 58,…
3 MIN READNASA moved its grounded Artemis II moon rocket off the launch pad back to its hangar at Kennedy Space Center for more repairs Wednesday, the agency said. The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket had been on the pad for a potential March…
3 MIN READA new telescope image released by the European Southern Observatory shows swirling cold gas and dust around the Milky Way galaxy’s supermassive black hole at the dead center. The picture, released Wednesday, spans more than 650 light-years…
3 MIN READGrounded until at least April, NASA’s giant moon rocket is headed back to the Vehicle Assembly Building for more repairs before astronauts strap in for Artemis II. The agency said Sunday it is targeting Tuesday for a slow, four-mile trek…
3 MIN READSix planets will line up in the night sky at the end of February, with four visible to the naked eye if skies are clear. Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn can be spotted from the ground, while Uranus and Neptune require binoculars or…
3 MIN READNASA's Artemis II rocket is returning to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center this week for repairs to its helium system, the space agency announced Sunday, delaying the first crewed moon mission in more than half a…
4 MIN READNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Feb. 19, 2026, sharply criticized Boeing and NASA management over the botched Starliner flight that left two astronauts stuck for months at the International Space Station. Isaacman said Boeing…
3 MIN READNASA delayed the Artemis II lunar mission again on Saturday, with April now the earliest possible launch date. The problem emerged just one day after the agency targeted March 6, when engineers discovered that helium flow to the rocket's…
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