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SpaceX is preparing to launch the biggest and most powerful rocket Thursday, working nonstop after the first shot at a test flight fizzled earlier in the week. The nearly 400-foot ...

TOKYO—The bankruptcy filing by Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc. has dealt a blow to Japan's hopes of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon Monday, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar ...

Chinese military researchers reportedly view the SpaceX-operated Starlink satellite internet system as a national security threat while suggesting ...

WASHINGTON—Amazon's satellite venture, SpaceX's Starlink network, and other satellite firms on Wednesday won a combined $278.5 million in ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX expanded its constellation of low Earth orbit satellites on Saturday with the launch of 53 ...

Viasat Inc., a global communications company headquartered in Carlsbad, California, has opened its first Real-Time Earth (RTE) facility ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Elon Musk's private rocket company, SpaceX, was due to launch four more astronauts to the International ...

Landsat 9 is the latest in a string of satellites sent up into orbit since 1972. It's a ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—SpaceX's four astronauts had barely settled into orbit last Friday when they were ordered back into ...

LOS ANGELES—Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reached space on Sunday, eight months after the first demonstration flight of its ...

The weather report predicted widespread clouds on the night of the lunar eclipse. But the clouds cleared in ...

As solar systems develop around young stars, exoplanet “pileups” and “deserts” may result from the generation of specific ...