Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News on Space

'Not looking good right now': Starship likely to be lost at sea 2 weeks after epic 13th test flight, Elon Musk says

SpaceX is still towing Starship's upper stage toward shore two weeks after its latest test flight, but the unprecedented effort is unlikely to succeed, according to Elon Musk.

Space

NASA figured out how to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year

NASA's Voyager 2 probe, which launched in 1977, can keep operating its last science instruments after a power reduction operation performed in interstellar space.

Space

Inside the mystery of the James Webb Space Telescope's little red dots — and how they might be evolving

The James Webb Space Telescope's strange "little red dots" may be evolving into spiral galaxies.

Space

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Engineers race to save stricken LINK rescue spacecraft before it's too late

The private LINK spacecraft, which launched last month to save a NASA space telescope, now needs saving, too —and teams are making progress on that front.

Space

SpaceX Stock Meltdown Takes $28 Billion Bite Out of Google's Portfolio

Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) newest 13F filing just put a number on one of the biggest bets in Big Tech history — and the market has already started rewriting it.

Benzinga

Chinese company Landspace targets Aug. 10 for historic rocket launch and landing attempt

The Chinese commercial launch company Landspace is set for its second attempt to catch an orbital rocket. Liftoff, and landing, are targeted for next Monday (Aug. 10).

Space

Cosmic treasure chest explodes with baby stars | Space photo of the day for Aug. 7, 2026

The Carina Nebula is truly something to behold in this new snapshot.

Space

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Eric Trump Defends SpaceX After Bloomberg Op-Ed Slams Starlink as 'Overpromising and Underdelivering'— Elon Musk Backs Him Up

On Thursday, Eric Trump pushed back against criticism of Space Exploration Technologies Corp’s (NASDAQ:SPCX) Starlink service, arguing the company’s broader achievements in space exploration far outweigh concerns raised in an Opinion column.

Benzinga

UK observatory nervously watches growing space junk threat

CHILBOLTON — In the sweeping shadow of a satellite dish, staff at the Chilbolton Observatory in southern England track a growing number of objects in Earth's orbit, providing data that underpins Britain's space monitoring efforts.

Bangkok Post

'One more step': NASA astronauts conduct 6.5-hour spacewalk to prep ISS for solar array upgrade

Jessica Meir and Anil Menon completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk to install solar array mounting hardware outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026.

Space

Rocket Lab launches Japanese Earth-observing satellite after 5-week delay (video, photos)

Rocket Lab launched its eighth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS on Thursday morning (Aug. 6), five weeks later than originally planned.

Space

SpaceX, Tesla Confirm Terafab Site as Chip Demand Outruns Global Supply

SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX) and Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) on Thursday confirmed Grimes County, Texas as the permanent home for Terafab, the companies’ giant semiconductor manufacturing venture.

Benzinga

SpaceX rocket's impact crater on the moon spied by Korean lunar orbiter (photos)

South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter has spied the crater that a SpaceX rocket blasted out when it slammed into the moon on Wednesday morning (Aug. 5).

Space

Tech barons dream of human colonies on Mars – but I can’t think of a worse place to die

Humans love to do stupid things to reach far-off places – but even the wildest frontiers on Earth have at least the possibility of a return home

The Guardian - AU

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Space

Blue Origin traces origin of huge New Glenn rocket explosion to oxygen valve, CEO says

Blue Origin has made considerable progress in its New Glenn anomaly investigation, tracing the problem to a faulty valve in one of the rocket's first-stage engines.

Space

Mars rover watches Earth disappear behind Phobos | Space photo of the day for Aug. 6, 2025

"Phobos crosses the Martian sky three times a day, and Earth is visible for months at a stretch, but catching one directly behind the other takes planning and a little luck."

Space

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 wasn't the first rocket to crash into the moon. Here's a rundown

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage that collided with the moon on Wednesday (Aug. 5), was just the latest in a line of energetic lunar touchdowns.

The Guardian - AU

‘Spectral lines’ and a giant plume: what science saw when the SpaceX rocket hit the moon

Sodium and lithium gas was detected in a plume thought to span tens of kilometres, created when part of a SpaceX rocket crashed into the lunar surface

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Benzinga

Cathie Wood Buys $17.6 Million of Nvidia Stock as SpaceX's GPU Bet Fuels Optimism, Dumps Palantir Stock as Michael Burry's Short Bet Lingers

On Wednesday, Cathie Wood-led Ark Invest executed significant trades involving Space Exploration Technologies Corp (NASDAQ:SPCX), NVIDIA Corp (NASDAQ:NVDA), Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE:CRCL), and Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:PLTR).

Benzinga

Maye Musk Opens Up About Space Travel and Elon Musk's Moon Ambitions for SpaceX: 'I Will Go Wherever He Wants Me to Go'

Maye Musk says she would be open to traveling to space with her son, Elon Musk, but the nearly 80-year-old supermodel and author has questions about whether rocket travel would offer enough comfort.

Space

A SpaceX rocket just crashed into the moon. Now, the race is on to get a look at the impact site

Early this morning, a SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at seven times the speed of sound. Now, lunar orbiters are trying to get a look at the aftermath.

Benzinga

SpaceX Lockup Expiry Could Send a Gentle Jolt Through QQQ, Nasdaq ETFs

Beginning Thursday, the proportion of SpaceX’s (NASDAQ:SPCX) shares available for public trading is set to rise from less than 5% to more than 12%, with more lockup expirations scheduled for Aug 20 and late September. The expanding free float could gradually increase the rocket company’s weight in float-adjusted indexes such…

Space

Astronomers witness the strange final moments of a massive star's supernova death (video)

Astronomers have captured the death of a massive star from its first faint flash of X-rays, revealing an unusual supernova.

The Independent UK

Scientists are certain a wayward SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon as predicted

Scientists say they're certain that a SpaceX rocket has slammed into the moon as predicted

The Independent UK

New images of the sun show its surface in the finest detail yet

Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.