SpaceX ignites all 33 powerful engines on Starship booster ahead of Flight 13 launch (video)
SpaceX ignites all 33 powerful engines on Starship booster ahead of Flight 13 launch (video)

SpaceX completed an engine test of the next Super Heavy booster slated to launch Starship’s next mission, which could lift off as soon as next week.

Making history! China lands rocket during an orbital launch for 1st time ever (video)
Making history! China lands rocket during an orbital launch for 1st time ever (video)

A Chinese Long March 10B rocket aced its debut launch on Friday (July 10), sending a satellite to orbit and coming down for a history-making landing at sea.

The US wants to build offshore rocket launch sites. Critics say ‘our coasts deserve better’
The US wants to build offshore rocket launch sites. Critics say ‘our coasts deserve better’

The U.S. government is looking into launching commercial rockets from sea-based launch sites, but some advocacy groups fear making the ocean a dumping ground.

Japanese company books 1,100 pounds of cargo space on SpaceX Starship mission to the moon

The Japanese company ispace is expanding its already extensive moon plans to include SpaceX’s Starship megarocket.

NASA’s New Horizons probe just woke up from hibernation 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto. What’s it doing out there?
NASA’s New Horizons probe just woke up from hibernation 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto. What’s it doing out there?

NASA’s New Horizons probe has woken up in good health nearly 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto after spending nearly a year in hibernation.

SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite

A satellite aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and operated spacecraft to harness nuclear energy in orbit.

SpaceX launches 81 satellites to orbit from California, lands rocket on ship at sea
SpaceX launches 81 satellites to orbit from California, lands rocket on ship at sea

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 81 payloads to orbit from California early Tuesday morning (July 7), then landed on a ship at sea.

Unidentified metal spheres found on Australian beach are ‘debris from a foreign rocket body’, space agency says

The Australian Space Agency is warning residents of Queensland to be on the lookout after metallic-looking spheres, possibly space debris, appeared on a beach.