“Technically it did land”—SpaceX debuts a wonderfully absurd blooper reelByChase PurdyPublishedSeptember 14, 2017
A giant telescope listening for aliens could be disrupted by millions of tourists’ cellphonesByEcho HuangPublishedAugust 24, 2017
Elon Musk is teasing space travel fanatics with a photo of SpaceX’s first working spacesuitByAnne QuitoPublishedAugust 23, 2017
A century before Bezos and Musk, rich men were already funding space explorationByTim FernholzPublishedJuly 29, 2017
The case for sending US companies back to the moon, explained in cartoonsByTim FernholzPublishedJuly 19, 2017
If the US really wants to go to Mars, Elon Musk knows how to bring down the priceByTim FernholzPublishedJuly 14, 2017
The dramatic way our view of Jupiter’s giant red spot has changed over the past 138 yearsByAkshat RathiPublishedJuly 13, 2017
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is out-launching its biggest competitors for the first time everByTim FernholzPublishedJuly 6, 2017
The complete visual history of SpaceX’s single-minded pursuit of rocket reusabilityByTim FernholzPublishedJuly 1, 2017
Donald Trump’s new National Space Council is already baffling the space industryByTim FernholzPublishedJune 30, 2017
Watch live: SpaceX launches satellites into orbit for the second time in 48 hoursByTim FernholzPublishedJune 25, 2017
Watch live as Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launches Bulgaria’s first communications satelliteByTim FernholzPublishedJune 23, 2017
The statistical likelihood that asteroids will destroy us all in 10 million yearsBySanna AlwmarkPublishedJune 23, 2017
For its next trick, SpaceX will launch two rockets in 48 hours from opposite sides of the USByTim FernholzPublishedJune 22, 2017
Virgin Orbit’s newly-minted CEO will use psychology to launch satellites faster than anyone elseByTim FernholzPublishedJune 13, 2017
Virgin Galactic has given us a first glimpse of its would-be corporate space jet, SpaceShipTwo, in flightByTim FernholzPublishedJune 10, 2017
Now playing “You are the best of us”: NASA just announced America’s most competitive class of astronautsPublishedJune 7, 2017
Scientists have found the hottest planet ever—and it’s evaporatingByKatherine Ellen FoleyPublishedJune 6, 2017