A decade ago, the commercial space industry in the United States celebrated a hard-fought victory in efforts to reform export controls. After years of effort, the State Department enacted changes to ...

This photo provided by Maxar Technologies shows the SpaceX Starship on the launch pad in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Wood, Stephen / AP In 1959, science writer Willy Ley sat down ...

There are now proposed Texas state bills from state senators that have the common goal of giving SpaceX massive control over the public roads and beaches for when they are launching their cosmic ...

EXCLUSIVE — A bipartisan group of Florida lawmakers is pressing Federal Aviation Administration and Transportation Department personnel to coordinate more efficiently between themselves and with ...

When President Donald Trump signed the Space Force into existence, he hailed space as the “world’s newest warfighting domain.” Five years later, the Space Force is fully embracing its role as ...

On July 8, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4-megaton nuclear weapon 400 kilometers above the Pacific Ocean. The Starfish Prime test created an artificial aurora visible from Hawaii, nearly 900 ...