The White House said it selected Janet Petro, director of the Kennedy Space Center, to be acting administrator of NASA. Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett WASHINGTON — NASA is beginning to implement a ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has already secured a White House email address and office space, clearing the way for him to launch the cost-cutting effort he’s called the Department of Government ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's new administration is likely to do away with the White House's National Space Council, a cabinet policy panel that lobbyists at Elon Musk's ...

Mr. Trump had wanted Mr. Musk to have the space, one of the people said. Mr. Musk has been given a badge for the White House complex and was said to be working there on Monday. He has filled out ...

Two major space launches in two days got 2025 off to a rousing start. The Blue Ghost lunar lander is on its way to the moon, and just one day after it left Earth, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' Blue ...

New Glenn's namesake was the first American to orbit the Earth and became the then-oldest person in space when he flew again at the age of 77 in 1998. This morning's broadcast host, Ariane Cornell ...

SpaceX's Starship exploded into countless fragments of space debris as it reentered the atmosphere over the Caribbean following its seventh test flight. Listen to Story SpaceX's Starship exploded on ...

India on Thursday became the fourth country to successfully achieve an unmanned docking in space, a feat seen as pivotal for future missions as New Delhi cements its place as a global space power.

During the mission, which has now been scrapped, the spacecraft planned to deploy 10 Starlink satellite simulators for the first time, testing its ability to deliver payloads in space. The ...

SpaceX said Thursday that its Starship space vehicle broke up during a flight meant to test the megarocket's capabilities. The rocket system's upper stage appears to have disintegrated somewhere ...

The rocket lifted off at 2:03 a.m. ET on January 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and crossed the official boundary into space a few minutes later. Shortly after, a second-stage burn placed the ...