Tag: Space

Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, is photographed next to the deployed United States flag during lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. The highest part of the flag appears to point toward our planet Earth in the distant background. This picture was taken by scientist-astronaut Harrison H. Schmitt, lunar module pilot. While astronauts Cernan and Schmitt descended in the Lunar Module (LM) to explore the moon, astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit.

What it took to put Americans on the moon

Samuel J. Abrams · October 25, 2026 12:00 pm

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks at an event.

Musk explores merging SpaceX and Tesla, calling it a ‘good idea’

Molly Parks · October 21, 2026 11:19 am

SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is prepared for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025.

Abbott dismisses report Texas could sell public beach to SpaceX after controversy over closures

Emily Hallas · October 20, 2026 10:30 am

European soldiers work with vendors to launch Micro High-Altitude Balloons during Arcane Thunder 26 at the National Training Center, California, April 2026.

How head of Army’s space command became a ‘huge believer’ on high-altitude surveillance balloons

Mike Brest · October 14, 2026 4:44 pm

In this photo made available by NASA, the space shuttle Challenger launches the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite in 1984. On Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, the U.S. space agency said the 38-year-old NASA satellite is about to fall from the sky, but the chance of wreckage falling on anybody is âvery low.â It's expected to come down Sunday night, give or take 17 hours.

The Pentagon is spending billions to quantum-proof satellites that will still take orders from a ghost

Burak Oktenli · October 9, 2026 10:00 am

FILE - In this long exposure photo, a string of SpaceX StarLink satellites passes over an old stone house near Florence, Kan., on May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann, File)

SpaceX moves to turn Starlink into next major US mobile carrier

David Zimmermann · October 8, 2026 10:32 pm

This undated photo released by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and Far East, shows the institute workers in a lab in Russia.

Siberian plague lab death shows why Moscow can’t be trusted

Tom Rogan · October 8, 2026 6:00 am

U.S. Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting, Commander, U.S. Space Command provided a command update to gathered media, military, and civilian attendees at the 2025 Space and Missile Defense Symposium, in Huntsville, Alabama, August 5, 2025. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Courtney Lockwood)

Space Command tries to bridge Colorado and Alabama as joint future of space defense

Mike Brest · October 5, 2026 5:30 pm

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket stands ready for launch against an ocean-blue sky.

Trump wants 1,000 space launches a year. What happens when one link breaks?

Burak Oktenli · October 5, 2026 8:00 am

Seagulls fly near the site of SpaceX's mega rocket Starship as it is prepared for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026.

Why SpaceX’s Starship orbital flight test is historic

Emily Hallas · September 28, 2026 8:20 am

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the space observatory Roman Telescope

AI’s data center problem could move to space

Rena Rowe · September 26, 2026 4:14 pm

SpaceX's Starship rocket lifts off during a test flight.

Elon Musk built the rockets. Washington forgot to build the roads

Mark Montgomery, Emmerson Overell · September 26, 2026 7:00 am