Tagged With Space

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to suck up asteroid rubble for the first time. Watch the risky manoeuvre live.

Susie Neilson, Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Dave Mosher

SpaceX is working with Microsoft to build a satellite network that can detect the launch of nuclear weapons

Dave Mosher

Space-station crew members just found an elusive air leak by watching tea leaves float in microgravity

Susie Neilson

Elon Musk says SpaceX has a 'fighting chance' of sending its giant Starship rocket to Mars in 2024 — 2 years later than previously hoped

Kate Duffy

NASA gave Nokia $14.1 million to build a 4G network on the moon

Grace Dean

Toyota is creating a Lunar Cruiser for Japan's space exploration agency — take a look

Mary Meisenzahl

Elon Musk's SpaceX keeps winning US military contracts — here's why, according to an aerospace expert

Kate Duffy

An oxygen-supply system on the space station's Russian side has failed

Susie Neilson

About 3% of SpaceX's Starlink satellites may have failed. That's not too bad, but across a 42,000-spacecraft constellation it could spark a crisis.

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Elon Musk's SpaceX is launching a satellite that can measure rising sea levels to the millimetre from 830 miles above Earth

Kate Duffy

SpaceX's next astronaut mission for NASA has been pushed to November following an issue with its rocket engines

Susie Neilson

Astronomers captured rare images of a black hole shredding a star into spaghetti-like strands and devouring it

Susie Neilson

This Boeing 727 lets passengers experience zero gravity by flying crazy manoeuvres, and it's now on tour across the US

Thomas Pallini

What Elon Musk's 42,000 Starlink satellites could do for — and to — planet Earth

Michelle Yan, Bob Hunt, Dave Mosher

Elon Musk's Tesla and its 'Starman' driver just flew past Mars for the first time, 2 years after SpaceX launched the car into the void

Morgan McFall-Johnsen

Double Dragon: SpaceX plans to have at least 1 spaceship – and sometimes 2 – in space for the next 14 months without a break

Susie Neilson

SpaceX doubled down on clearing out the village where it's building a rocket resort by telling residents 'it's not safe' to live there — and some see it as a threat

Dave Mosher

Elon Musk's SpaceX wins a $149 million Pentagon contract to build missile-tracking satellites

Kate Duffy

A Japanese astronaut is in talks to join SpaceX's artist-filled Starship mission around the moon

Dave Mosher

There's a spacecraft graveyard in the middle of the ocean. Here's what's down there.

Dave Mosher