THE STORY Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket — the heavy-lift vehicle Jeff Bezos has spent over a decade and billions of dollars developing to challenge SpaceX's dominance — exploded during
THE STORY On May 22, 2026, NASA announced one of its most sweeping organizational realignments in recent memory, combining mission directorates and
THE STORY Four Russian satellites have maneuvered into close proximity to an ICEYE radar satellite, the Finnish-founded company whose synthetic aperture radar
THE STORY Varda Space Industries successfully returned its W-6 capsule to Earth on May 18, landing under parachute at the Koonibba Test
THE STORY Cowboy Space Corporation — formerly Aetherflux — closed a $275 million Series B led by Index Ventures and filed plans three days
THE STORY Engineers are developing a concept for a spherical, rolling robot that would carry a swarm of tiny "dandelion drones&
THE STORY The U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command announced plans for the USSF-23 mission, which will launch vehicles
THE STORY NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed a rare, unusually luminous supernova explosion that appears to have been
THE STORY Vast, the California-based startup best known for developing the Haven series of commercial space stations, announced on May 19 that
THE STORY NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is on track for a September 2026 launch, and the agency has
THE STORY NASA's Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, passing within 2,864 miles (4,
THE STORY SpaceX is targeting May 19 for Flight 12, the debut launch of Starship Version 3 — a ground-up redesign of the
THE STORY NASA has revealed critical new details about Artemis III, the crewed mission now targeted for late 2027 that will test
