SpaceX founder Elon Musk announced Friday that the company’s massive Starship rocket is set to depart for Mars at the end of 2026, carrying Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus. In a post on X, he added ...

Musk’s SpaceX has faced multiple hurdles recently, ending two straight rocket launches with explosions. After the second explosion last week, Musk deemed it a “minor setback” and said SpaceX ...

A new crew is officially on their way to the International Space Station, which means fellow astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — who have been in space for 9 months now — are officially one ...

India took another step forward with its human spaceflight program ... allowing it to simulate separating from a failing rocket. Under the power of its abort motors the capsule will rise into ...

Credit: General Atomics A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like ... move us closer to a real rocket of this design being used to propel cargo and even human astronauts much deeper ...