THE STORY Astronomers have confirmed the first-ever detection of an atmosphere surrounding LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet 48 light-years away that sits within the host red dwarf star'
THE STORY At approximately 2:06 PM ET on Saturday, May 31, a meteor streaked over the northeastern United States and detonated
THE STORY Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket — the heavy-lift vehicle Jeff Bezos has spent over a decade and billions
THE STORY The Federal Aviation Administration has grounded SpaceX's Starship megarocket pending a SpaceX-led mishap investigation into the debut
THE STORY Federal Aviation Administration documents have revealed new details about a SpaceX project called Starfall — a family of reentry vehicles designed
THE STORY The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a supermassive black hole that appears to have formed before the galaxy surrounding
THE STORY On May 22, 2026, SpaceX launched Starship Flight 12 from Pad 2 at Starbase, Texas — the debut flight of the
THE STORY On May 24, 2026, China launched the Shenzhou-23 mission from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, sending three astronauts to the
THE STORY On May 20, 2026, SpaceX filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC under the ticker SPCX, offering the first-
THE STORY Blue Origin announced it has completed the investigation into the failure on the third flight of its New Glenn rocket,
THE STORY Rocket Lab secured a $90 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to build and operate two geostationary orbit
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
