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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.

Scientists are exploring how lasers stabilized in the moon's coldest, darkest craters could enable a GPS-like network to help future Artemis astronauts and spacecraft navigate the lunar surface with far greater precision.

A worker died at SpaceX's Starbase site in South Texas early Friday morning (May 15), as the company geared up for the debut launch of its Starship V3 megarocket.

'Well, let’s call it an advance on the next mission.'

The California startup Vast, which is best known for its space station plans, announced today (May 19) that it's launching a new line of high-power satellites.

The moon dances with the king of the planets, with the horizon as their stage.

The Liquid Oxygen Flight demonstration (LOXSAT) will help NASA test and develop technologies to support in-space transfer and storage of cryogenic propellants, critical abilities for the Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon.

Maul doesn't need the Force. He needs a hug.

The galaxy M77 looks truly out-of-this-world in a new image by the James Webb Space Telescope.

'Star Wars' used to be the ultimate theatrical experience, but have years of Disney+ spin-offs dulled its multiplex appeal?

Plotting the optimal trajectory to visit multiple asteroids is a fiendishly difficult take on the Traveling Salesperson problem, but a new mathematical approach has succeeded in solving it.

On May 8, the Pentagon released its first tranche of "UFO files." Space.com reached out to experts to make sense of this highly anticipated data drop.

"This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth."

'For the atmosphere and world of 'Voidverse' to work, I needed the characters and the prose to meld with the setting.'

'The Mandalorian and Grogu' should not have been a theatrical release… and it maybe shouldn't exist at all

SpaceX will launch its first Starship V3 vehicle on the Flight 12 test flight on Thursday (May 21).

A Vega C rocket launched the European-Chinese SMILE space weather mission to orbit on Monday night (May 18).

A new NASA video shows the Artemis 2 Orion capsule's separation from its service module just before the spacecraft slammed into Earth's atmosphere on April 10, 2026.

SpaceX is targeting a Wednesday, May 20, launch for its newest Starship design, the Starship V3 megarocket.

Forecasts say up to three glancing CME impacts could trigger G1 and possible G2 geomagnetic storms through May 20, boosting aurora chances across parts of the northern U.S.