SpaceX launched 98 orbital missions in 2023, a new record for the company at the time — but it left that mark in the dust this year. The company's orbital tally in 2024, as of Dec. 23, is 131 — more than half the global total for the year.
SpaceX is revolutionizing the exploration of space and the potential for global internet. Compared to NASA, it is a fraction of the cost and appreciably more efficient.
Outgoing NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Wednesday he is optimistic SpaceX founder Elon Musk's relationship with President-Elect Donald Trump will help ensure NASA receives the funding needed to support a robust agenda,
NASA and SpaceX are targeting mid-January for the launch of Firefly Aerospace's Ghost Riders in the Sky mission to the lunar surface.
The next crew rotation mission to the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX's Crew-10, has been delayed to no earlier than late March 2025, NASA announced on Tuesday (Dec. 17).
The launch of NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 to the International Space Station has been deferred to March 2025 to finalize a new Dragon spacecraft. The crew, training in Houston, includes representatives from NASA,
NASA’s SPHEREx observatory will lend insight into what happened after the Big Bang, measure the glow of galaxies near and far, and search the Milky Way for building blocks of life. NASA and SpaceX are planning to launch the SPHEREx astrophysics observatory in late February 2025.
Blue Ghost’s mission focuses on testing groundbreaking lunar technologies and science payloads for future exploration
In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world.Author Zhenbo Wang Associate Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering, University
NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun, in 2025. One key event for Lucy is its flyby of the inner main-belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson, scheduled for April 20, 2025.
Pictures from the International Space Station do not disappoint, from comets and northern lights to giant hurricanes and cities at night.
Larger questions surround Musk, the man behind the entire system. Musk’s influence is poised to expand significantly after helping re-elect Donald Trump and securing a role co-chairing a commission aimed at reducing the federal government, including the Pentagon.