A worker died at SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas early Friday morning (May 15), as the company geared up for the debut launch of its Starship V3 megarocket.
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The California startup Vast, which is best known for its space station plans, announced today (May 19) that it’s launching a new line of high-power satellites.
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The Liquid Oxygen Flight demonstration (LOXSAT) will help NASA test and develop technologies to support in-space transfer and storage of cryogenic propellants, critical abilities for the Artemis program to return astronaut…
Plotting the optimal trajectory to visit multiple asteroids is a fiendishly difficult take on the Traveling Salesperson problem, but a new mathematical approach has succeeded in solving it.
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On May 8, the Pentagon released its first tranche of “UFO files.” Space.com reached out to experts to make sense of this highly anticipated data drop.
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SpaceX will launch its first Starship V3 vehicle on the Flight 12 test flight on Thursday (May 21).
A Vega C rocket launched the European-Chinese SMILE space weather mission to orbit on Monday night (May 18).
A new NASA video shows the Artemis 2 Orion capsule’s separation from its service module just before the spacecraft slammed into Earth’s atmosphere on April 10, 2026.
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SpaceX is now targeting a Friday, May 22, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket.
What a view from the Orion capsule.