International Space Station Welcomes Its First Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary America’s most experienced astronaut, Peggy Whitson, is the commander of the visiting crew. She works for Axiom Space, the...
SpaceX Plans up to 76 Starship Launches Annually from Old Delta IV Launch Site The first of two Environmental Impact Statements around SpaceX plans for Starship launch sites on the Space Coast was...
White House Asked Joint Chiefs Chairman for Candidates to Lead NASA, Worrying Experts The White House made the unusual move of reaching out to Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for advice on...
Elon Musk Pulls Back on Threat to Withdraw Dragon Spacecraft SpaceX is the only U.S. company capable right now of transporting crews to and from the space station, using its four-person...
Space: The Final Frontier for Federal Service Albert Gonzales has an office job, but it isn't much like the ones you're probably familiar with: Instead of a cubicle...
Billionaire Spacewalker Highlights Mars Trip for Astronauts in His Bid to Become NASA's Next Chief The nominee for NASA’s top job, billionaire spacewalker Jared Isaacman, outlined his vision for space exploration that...
Trump Administration Halts Dozens of Research Grants at Princeton University Princeton was notified this week that several dozen federal grants are being suspended by agencies including the Department...
Who Else Has Been Stuck in Space? A Short History of Long Spaceflights NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls...
First Space Force Guardian Launched into Space Returns with Stranded Astronauts As the commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 mission, Col. Nick Hague traveled 72,553,920 miles, spent 171 days in space, and...
NASA's Newest Space Telescope Blasts Off to Map the Entire Sky and Millions of Galaxies NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at hundreds of...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...