After years of indecision, NASA is moving ahead with its original plan to buy private stations to replace the aging International Space Station. But can it make up for lost time?

2025 was a very busy year in spaceflight. Over the past 12 months, we saw multiple spaceflight records broken, the debut of a powerful new reusable rocket and the first-ever fully successful private ...

SpaceX says it will launch a private flyby mission to Mars that will be led by cryptocurrency billionaire Chun Wang, but when it will fly is unclear.

When the International Space Station plunges to its fiery doom in 2030, its loss to science will be incalculable, even if it remains an open question as to whether its successes matched humanity's ...

As part of its plan to develop a private space station, Vast Space built and then launched a small demonstration spacecraft ...

NASA has released over 12,000 new images from the Artemis II mission, capturing rare views from its crewed lunar flyby. The publication comes alongside fresh data showing private rocket companies now ...

The wild west of private spaceflight just got a hint of order as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) placed new restrictions on when commercial missions can launch and reenter through Earth’s ...

SpaceX eventually plans to use a version of the Dragon capsule to carry astronauts and other paying customers to low-Earth orbit. As the company grows and sets even loftier goals, the spaceflight firm ...

Two months ago, a key staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz said in a public meeting that she was “begging” NASA to release a document that would kick off the second round of a competition among private companies ...

One example cited by MacDonald is the emergence of ever larger and increasingly expensive observatories in the United States. It is certainly an unusual approach to include observatories alongside ...