Jackie Wattles

Dennis Tito, a US millionaire who previously paid his way to the International Space Station in 2001, and his wife, Akiko, plan to take a lunar expedition that will last roughly a week, according to SpaceX.

Rocket Lab, a prolific launch company that routinely blasts its 60-foot tall Electron rockets into orbit out of New Zealand, conducted its first liftoff from US soil from Virginia on Tuesday.

Rocket Lab, a prolific launch company that routinely blasts its 60-foot tall Electron rockets into orbit out of New Zealand, conducted its first liftoff from US soil from Virginia on Tuesday.

SpaceX launched a Tesla roadster belonging to company founder and billionaire Elon Musk in 2018, and what’s left of the car may still be in orbit today.

Astronaut Jessica Watkins became the first Black woman to join an International Space Station expedition. As a member of NASA’s Artemis team, she’s part of a group of astronauts who could be selected to join upcoming crewed missions to the moon, and, perhaps, eventually to Mars.

Researchers took a closer look at the molecular structure of tinder fingus, a bell-shaped fungus that grows on trees — and they’ve found “ingeniously lightweight biological designs.”

SpaceX and NASA have called off an astronaut launch to the International Space Station after an issue with the rocket’s ground system was detected.

SpaceX and NASA have called off an astronaut launch to the International Space Station after an issue with the rocket’s ground system was detected.

Here’s what you should know about the 5,000-mile-wide blob of seaweed headed for Florida.

A top SpaceX executive is accusing government regulators of stifling the company’s progress on its Starship megarocket — potentially opening the door for China to beat US astronauts back to the moon. William Gerstenmaier — SpaceX’s vice president for build and reliability who previously served as NASA’s associate administrator for human exploration — delivered the warning Wednesday to the Senate subcommittee on space and science at a hearing on commercial space regulations. The remarks come as S…