SpaceX's Starship rocket launches from Starbase during its second test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on November 18, 2023.Photograph: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/Getty Images By Josh Dinner, Published by Space.com, 7 July 2025 The Air Force's Rocket Cargo Vanguard program will apparently look for a new place for rockets to land.
NASA has awarded funds to Austin, Texas-based ICON, to develop construction technologies that could help build landing pads, habitats, and roads on the Moon using local lunar resources. (Image credit: ICON/BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group) By Martina Elia Vitoloni, Published by The Conversation, 2 July 2025 In science-fiction stories, companies often mine
By Chas Newkey-Burden, Published by yahoo!news, 10 June 2025 Elon Musk has no shortage of targets for his animosity: the media, "woke" progressives, the trans "agenda" and, most recently, his former best buddy Donald Trump. But one less expected Musk adversary is more powerful than them all: the Sun. SpaceX's
SpaceX's Dragon approaches the International Space Station By Leonie Chao-Fong, Published by The Guardian, 5 June 2025 World’s richest man says craft, which Nasa relies on to take astronauts to ISS, will be withdrawn from commission Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Thursday said his company SpaceX would begin
An artist's illustration of SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites in orbit. (Image credit: SpaceX) By Paulina Okunyte, Published by cybernews, 2 June 2025 As Elon Musk floods the sky with satellites, scientists say the Sun is quietly pulling them back down. On Saturday night (May 31st), SpaceX launched another 27 satellites
A full-scale prototype of the Interlune excavator, developed in partnership with Vermeer: Interlune By Christopher McFadden, Published by Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2025 The lunar excavator, jointly developed by NASA backed startup Interlune and industrial equipment manufacturer Vermeer, is designed to dig up 100 metric tons of lunar dirt per
The International Space Station has been continuously occupied for over 25 years By Laura M., Published by Union Rayo, 25 April 2029 The International Space Station (ISS) is going through its most complicated stage since it began exploring space in 1998. The safety committee that advises NASA has been very
Fragments can come off spacecraft like satellites and disintegrate into tiny – but dangerous – bits of debris in orbit: European Space Agency / Wikimedia Commons By Abhimanyu Ghoshal, Published by New Atlas, 16 April 2025 We've deployed so many satellites into space over the last few decades that we
