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SpaceX is targeting May 19, 2026 for the tenth Starship flight test, simultaneously debuting the redesigned Version 3 hardware and the brand-new Launch Pad 2 at Starbase — a critical step on the road to Artemis 3.
Two selfies and an expansive panorama captured in early 2026 mark Perseverance's deepest incursion into unexplored Martian terrain west of J…
SpaceX is set to launch its 34th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station, amid one of the busiest launch weeks of the…
At a site nicknamed 'Lac de Charmes,' NASA's Perseverance rover has captured its most westerly self-portrait yet — a 61-frame composite that…
SpaceX's Booster 19 passed its 33-engine static fire on May 7, clearing the path for Ship 39's rollout. Meanwhile, signs of a Falcon 9 caden…
NASA has appointed Brian Hughes as senior director of launch operations, giving him authority over the agency's launch infrastructure at Ken…
SpaceX fired all 33 Raptor engines on Super Heavy Booster 19 at full thrust, clearing a major hurdle before the next orbital flight attempt.…
SpaceX fired all 33 Raptor engines on Booster 19 for a full-duration static fire on May 7, 2026. As Ship 39 readies for rollout, Rocket Lab …
A razor-thin arc of Earth glowing against total darkness, and a spiral galaxy rendered in unprecedented detail: within days of each other, t…
SpaceX fired all 33 Raptor engines on Booster 19 in a full-duration static fire on May 7, clearing a key milestone for Starship. Meanwhile, …
A razor-thin arc of sunlit Earth, a spiral galaxy 45 million light-years away laid bare in infrared: Artemis II and the Webb telescope deliv…
On May 7, 2026, SpaceX ignited all 33 Raptor engines on Booster 19 in a full-duration static fire. Meanwhile, Rocket Lab reported strong rev…
One photograph shows Earth as a sliver of light taken by Artemis II astronauts. Another reveals a dust-laden spiral galaxy through Webb's in…
Inside a vacuum chamber replicating Mars's thin atmosphere, NASA engineers pushed experimental rotor blades past the speed of sound. The res…
NASA has appointed Brian Hughes as senior director of launch operations, placing Kennedy Space Center and Wallops Flight Facility under a si…
Within days of each other, NASA and the Webb telescope partnership released two striking images: a sliver of Earth glowing at the edge of sp…
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have pushed prototype rotor blades past Mach 1 inside a chamber simulating Mars's thin atmosph…
A glowing sliver of Earth seen from cislunar space, and a dust-wrapped active galaxy 45 million light-years away: on May 7, two missions rem…
Inside a chamber replicating the thin Martian atmosphere, NASA engineers pushed next-generation helicopter rotor blades past the speed of so…
By surveying thousands of young star clusters across four nearby galaxies, astronomers using Webb and Hubble have uncovered a clear pattern:…
SpaceX is keeping a relentless pace in May 2026, with a Dragon cargo mission to the International Space Station following hot on the heels o…
By training both the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes on thousands of young star clusters in four nearby galaxies, astronomers have fo…
Within days of each other, SpaceX is set to resupply the International Space Station and place 24 more Starlink satellites into orbit. The b…
NASA's Curiosity rover hit a snag in early May 2026 when a rock became stuck to its drill in a region called Atacama. The incident offers a …