Mr. Irving is an investigative journalist who has covered aviation and aerospace for more than 30 years.

In the first few months of 2025, there's been a flurry of private venture space missions. Some have been successful, such as ...

Elon Musk's Tesla’s humanoid robot — dubbed Optimus and designed to assist humans in a variety of tasks — is expected to travel to Mars by 2026, according to an announcement from SpaceX CEO himself re ...

Throughout history, when pioneers set out across uncharted territory to settle in distant lands, they carried with them only ...

"Once something's up in space and in orbit — and if it doesn't work — it's not like you can bring it back and fix it and send it back up again": Phil Monkress.

NASA and SpaceX successfully launched their SPHEREx and PUNCH missions into orbit Tuesday night from Vandenberg Space Force ...

being catapulted from Earth on a rocket, and, in this mission, landing softly on a rock a quarter-million miles away. The ...

So far, the consequences of these failures have not been lethal. But space remains a difficult, hazardous game. Reentering ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is rapidly advancing the development of Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and serve ...

NASA and its partners are pressing to speed up the timeline for the Artemis II launch that will fly humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years as the program competes with Trump ...

After the second loss of Starship was visible in Florida skies, new questions are being raised about the powerful launch ...

Hours later, Intuitive Machines acknowledged that it was zero for two for success in its moon landing goal ... The Space ...