A satellite aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and operated spacecraft to harness nuclear energy in orbit.
The U.S. just celebrated its 250th birthday, and the Americans living off the planet had a great view of some of the parties down below.

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

Japan’s Hayabusa2 asteroid probe got up close to asteroid Torifune on July 5 and captured stunning new images of the double-lobed space rock.

Following their return to Earth from a 10-day journey around the moon and back in April, NASA’s Artemis II astronauts headed to Capitol Hill.

We could see robots working on NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory out in space.

A new rover prototype is teaching NASA scientists how to design robots that can think for themselves and navigate terrain that would leave old rovers stuck in the lunar or Martian dust.

As the United States celebrates its 250th birthday, our Space.com team took a look back at American advances in space since 1776, and where we might be headed.

Could humans ever set foot on Titan, or will AI-powered humanoid robots make the voyage instead?