Falcon Heavy launches Arabsat-6A
Posted: Sun, Apr 14 10:37 AM ET (1437 GMT)
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched a communications satellite Thursday, with all three booster cores making successful landings. The Falcon Heavy, on its second launch, lifted...

Beresheet lander crashes on the Moon
Posted: Sun, Apr 14 10:35 AM ET (1435 GMT)
SpaceIL's Beresheeet lander crashed into the surface of the Moon Thursday after its main engine malfunctioned. The initial stages of the lander's descent...

Astronomers produce first image of a black hole
Posted: Sun, Apr 14 10:34 AM ET (1434 GMT)
Astronomers unveiled Wednesday the first direct image of a black hole. The image, of the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy M87...

Senators skeptical of need for a Space Force
Posted: Sun, Apr 14 10:33 AM ET (1433 GMT)
A Senate hearing showed that there remains considerable skepticism about the need for a Space Force. During a Thursday hearing by the Senate Armed Services...

Rocket Lab launches DARPA satellite
Posted: Sat, Mar 30 10:05 AM ET (1405 GMT)
Rocket Lab launched an experimental DARPA satellite Thursday evening. The company's Electron rocket lifted off from its New Zealand spaceport at 7:27 pm...

India tests anti-satellite weapon
Posted: Sat, Mar 30 10:00 AM ET (1400 GMT)
India announced Wednesday that it successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon, destroying one of its own satellites. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a televised speech,...

Vice President Pence calls for human landing on the Moon by 2024
Posted: Sat, Mar 30 9:56 AM ET (1356 GMT)
Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA Tuesday to return humans to the surface of the Moon within five years. Pence, speaking at a National Space...

Commercial Chinese launch fails
Posted: Sat, Mar 30 9:51 AM ET (1351 GMT)
The first orbital launch by Chinese company OneSpace has been confirmed to be a failure. The launch of the OS-M1 rocket from the Jiuquan...

NASA to perform new JWST cost estimate
Posted: Sat, Mar 30 9:47 AM ET (1347 GMT)
NASA will perform a new detailed cost and schedule estimate for the James Webb Space Telescope this year amid concerns the project is using up...

Scientists study how Kuiper Belt object visited by New Horizons formed
Posted: Sat, Mar 23 6:47 PM ET (2247 GMT)
The two lobes of the Kuiper Belt object visited by New Horizons may have gently come together. Scientists studying images and other data returned so...