Mike Wall

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket suffered an upper-stage problem during its fourth-ever flight on Friday (Dec. 22), delivering its payload to the wrong orbit.

The SpaceX launch of Axiom Space's Ax-3 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station has been delayed by eight days, to Jan. 17.

SpaceX conducted a static fire test today (Dec. 20) with Ship 28, a prototype that's being readied to make the third test flight of the Starship program.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris pledged today (Dec. 20) that NASA's Artemis program will send a non-American to the lunar surface before this decade is done.

Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over her third National Space Council meeting today (Dec. 20), and you can watch it live.

Blue Origin launched its first mission since September 2022 on Dec. 19, safely bringing the payloads back to Earth. The next space tourism crew has not yet been announced.

SpaceX launched 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites on Monday (Dec. 18) after a series of delays.

A month after its latest liftoff, SpaceX's giant Starship rocket is getting ready to fly again.

SpaceX is now targeting Dec. 28 for the launch of the U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane atop a Falcon Heavy rocket, after a delay of more than two weeks.

True Anomaly just raised $100 million in funding, which the company will use to continue developing its space security technology.

The sun unleashed an X2.8 solar flare today (Dec. 14), its most powerful such eruption since September 2017.

Rocket Lab successfully sent a Japanese commercial satellite skyward tonight (Dec. 14), acing its first mission since a failure in September.

NASA's Perseverance rover hit a big milestone today (Dec. 13) — 1,000 Mars days, or sols, on the Red Planet.

Just over a year ago, NASA's Artemis 1 Orion capsule returned to Earth in a blaze of glory, which the spacecraft captured on video.

Blue Origin plans to end its 15-month spaceflight hiatus with an uncrewed mission of its New Shepard suborbital vehicle on Dec. 18.

Final preparations are underway for a new launch opportunity, which will mark the first time the X-37B has lifted off atop SpaceX's powerful Falcon Heavy rocket.

SpaceX scrubbed Wednesday's (Dec. 13) planned Falcon Heavy launch of the US military's X-37B space plane, citing a 'ground side issue.' The next launch opportunity has yet to be announced.

The second-ever test flight of SpaceX's giant Starship vehicle was action-packed, as a new video shows.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter covered nearly half a mile of Martian ground on Friday (Dec. 15), acing its second-longest flight on the Red Planet.

SpaceX launched 22 more Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California early on Friday morning (Dec. 8).

Crossed wires likely prevented OSIRIS-REx's return capsule from deploying its drogue parachute during its descent through Earth's atmosphere on Sept. 24, NASA officials say.

SpaceX launched 23 Starlink internet satellites on Thursday (Dec. 7) on the company's 90th orbital mission of 2023.

The third flight of SpaceX's giant Starship vehicle could involve a propellant-transfer demonstration, according to NASA officials.

Japan's robotic SLIM spacecraft will make the nation's first-ever moon landing on Jan. 19, if all goes according to plan.

NASA's Mars robots are back up to full speed on and around the Red Planet, after a two-week pause in commanding.