As Starlink's orbital footprint grows, SpaceXAI wants to tackle a mounting safety challenge. But getting other satellite operators on board may prove difficult.
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SpaceX has used landing legs for most of its spacecraft in the past, but the newest model will use another mechanism. Here's why SpaceX plans to catch Starship
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SpaceX's Crew-13, aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket, broke one record that NASA previously held. Here's what the record is and how SpaceX made it possible.
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Florida would seem like the obvious place for SpaceX to launch Starship, but the company chose Texas instead. The decision came with some trade-offs.
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SpaceX wants to spend billions on Nvidia chips, but these aren't the graphics cards you'd put in a gaming PC. The company has something much bigger in mind.
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With how many rockets are launched between NASA and private agencies like SpaceX, it's a wonder that more rockets don't accidentally collide with satellites.
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Putting things into outer space is expensive, that's why reusable rocket boosters have been the dream for decades, and SpaceX is making it work.
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SpaceX's launch history runs from early Falcon 1 failures to astronaut flights and Starship tests, with one rocket doing most of the work along the way.
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SpaceX has relied on the same rocket for years of astronaut trips and satellite launches, but Elon Musk says it won't stay at the center of SpaceX forever.
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Reusing a rocket sounds like an obvious way for NASA to save money, but the cost of a SpaceX launch and the price the agency pays for it aren't the same thing.
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SpaceX has plenty left to test on Starship, from refueling to docking in orbit, and NASA is counting on it to finish in time for a much bigger assignment.
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Judging distance by miles is good enough for most of us on the ground, but for ocean-going vessels and spacecraft nautical miles make more sense.
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A company called Reflect Orbital received permission to send a test satellite into orbit to reflect sunlight back to Earth, how does this even work?
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SpaceX fitted Starship's first-stage booster with 33 engines, enough to make you wonder how it compares with the most powerful rockets humans have ever built.
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Space is full of electromagnetic radiation like radio signals, but those signals are usually coming from stars or black holes, not planets.
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While both the Merlin and Raptor rocket engines are being used by SpaceX for launch missions, there are key differences between the two designs.
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Boeing's Starliner could return to space before the year is out, but NASA has a different plan in place after the problems that plagued its last mission.
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There's been a lot of chatter lately about orbital data centers, and contrary to popular belief, satellite-based computing is closer than you think.
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If scientists want to better understand solar storms and the cycles that drive them, they need longitudinal data, which they get from old trees.
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The status of Pluto not withstanding, our solar system has 8 planets, but one astronomer believes we used to have a ninth that was eaten by the sun.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most advanced instruments ever built, and the little red dot it saw could change all of cosmology.
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There's a lot we don't know about our solar system, but that means we're always learning new stuff, like how much weight our neighbors have lost.
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In case you haven't been paying attention, there's a new space race going on, and if China's upcoming Mars mission is a success, they may be winning.
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This particle telescope, embedded in the Antarctic ice, gives scientists insight into important phenomena.
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Besides Earth, Mars is the planet that we know the most about, but that doesn't mean there isn't more to discover; Mars can still surprise us.
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With the recent successful intact splashdown of SpaceX's Starship 40, we're seeing just how challenging the recovery of these massive ships can be.
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The United States already has an academy for the Army, Navy, and Air Force, so it makes sense that NASA would also have an academy for potential astronauts.
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