Spaceflight

Elon Musk's SpaceX achieved a world-first engineering feat, catching the returning booster of its Starship rocket with mechanical arms back at the launch pad.

Billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a social media post that he plans to send about five uncrewed Starships to Mars in about two years.

A four-person SpaceX crew returned to Earth early Sunday after the Polaris Dawn mission, which included the first private spacewalk while they were orbiting above Earth.

The first private spacewalk is successfully underway by four astronauts in SpaceX's Polaris Dawn's mission. Earth was described as "gorgeous."

SpaceX launched the Polaris Dawn mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Press Site on Tuesday morning in a mission into Earth's Van Allen radiation belts.

Elon Musk predicted Saturday that crewed flights to Mars could begin within the next four years, with sustainable human settlements on Mars possibly beginning within two decades.

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission is expected to launch next Monday, carrying four crewmembers to an altitude three times the distance of the International Space Station.

NASA teams are analyzing Boeing Starliner data after the spacecraft experienced three helium leaks and thruster failures during its docking with the ISS.

Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 20 Starlink satellites into low earth orbit from California on Tuesday after a scrubbed launch in Florida.

Despite the discovery of helium leaks, the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that launched from Florida on Wednesday is expected to dock at the ISS on Thursday.

SpaceX crews celebrated success after launching Starship for the third time from south Texas on Thursday. The spacecraft followed a new flight path.

Those interested in watching the first U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon in more than half a century may be able to do so on Thursday.

Virgin Galactic, the aerospace and space travel company, announced on Monday that a small alignment pin detached from its Galactic 06 spaceflight last week

The compromised space vessel carrying the ashes of several "Star Trek" cast members is being forced into an emergency crash in the Pacific Ocean, according to Astrobotic.