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Upper-stage Starship spacecraft and a Super Heavy booster stand at the end of a road next to SpaceX’s Starship assembly facility in Starbase, Texas, on Nov. 16, 2023. (Image credit: Space.com / Josh Dinner) Update for 2:45 p.m. ET on May 6: Voters decided to incorporate Starbase as a city on Saturday (May 3), by […]

Just over a month since the return of the first astronauts to orbit Earth’s poles, SpaceX has released a four-hour video highlighting what that looked like from space. SpaceX launched the Fram2 mission on March 31, sending the mission’s financier and crew into a polar orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, marking a milestone

Jared Isaacman, candidate for President Donald Trump for the administrator of NASA, Fields questions from senators during his confirmation hearing. Credit: Livestream NASA Jared Isaacman, CEO of Shift4 Payments, the candidate of President Donald Trump for the NASA administrator, has finally obtained his day in the Senate and put his vision for the space agency

Based on an agreement announced in mid -April, Vast will have “direct access” to the National Lab International Space Station. Credit: NASA Vast Space, one of the numerous commercial companies in the running to replace the International Space Station (ISS) following its expected Deorbit at the end of the decade, this week has signed key

Stratolaunch’s Talon-2A hypersonic vehicle during one of its first two hypersonic test flights, in either December 2024 or March 2025. (Image credit: Stratolaunch/Julian Guerra) Stratolaunch Systems has gone hypersonic — twice. Stratolaunch took its uncrewed Talon-A2 prototype to hypersonic speeds for the first time this past December, then repeated the feat in March, the company

SpaceX’s Starship vehicle launches on its sixth test flight from Starbase, Texas, on Nov. 19, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX just got permission to ramp up launches of its Starship megarocket from South Texas. On Tuesday (May 6), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released its final environmental assessment (EA) of Starship operations at Starbase,

A distant galaxy (indicated with an arrow) shows signs of reionisation only 330 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: Esa/Webb, NASA & CSA, Jodes Collaboration, J. Witstok, P. Jakobsen, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Since he started collecting data, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has shed light on the first universe, helping us to better

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on May 6, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) There’s no rest for the space-enthused Starlink launch follower, as SpaceX continues lofting more of the internet satellites into orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket launched SpaceX’s Starlink 6-93 mission Tuesday night

The new Booster Shepard approaches the touchdown of April 14 during NS-31. Credit: Blue Origin On Monday morning, a group of civilians for the whole female including the pop star Katy Perry and the award -winning Gayle King transmission journalist flew to the limit of space and return. Perry, King and four others have been

NASA’s Orion Space passes 80 miles from the moon during the Artemis I mission in 2022. Credit: NASA The United States are in the middle of a second space of space and NASA is in a time crisis. The space agency is preparing to send American astronauts to the moon for the first time by