Mike Wall

The Starship megarocket checked every significant box during its 10th test flight on Tuesday evening (Aug. 26), according to SpaceX.

SpaceX's Starship megarocket took to the skies for the 10th time ever today (Aug. 26), on a bold test flight that marked a big bounceback from recent failures.

SpaceX scrubbed the planned 10th test flight of its Starship megarocket for the second day in a row today (Aug. 25), this time because of some uncooperative clouds.

A SpaceX cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on Aug. 25 carrying about 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of food, supplies and scientific experiments.

SpaceX scrubbed the planned 10th test flight of its Starship megarocket today (Aug. 24), citing a problem with ground systems at its Starbase site in South Texas.

Rocket Lab launched five satellites for a confidential customer this evening (Aug. 23) on the 70th overall liftoff of its Electron rocket.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday (Aug. 22), sending 24 of the company's Starlink broadband satellites to orbit.

The U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket tonight (Aug. 21), carrying a variety of high-tech gear to Earth orbit.

SpaceX has moved its giant Super Heavy booster to the launch pad ahead of Sunday's (Aug. 24) planned liftoff of the Starship megarocket.

Russia launched its Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite today (Aug. 20), sending 75 mice, 1,000 fruit flies and other organisms to orbit to learn more about the health effects of spaceflight.

A Long March 5B rocket launched the eighth batch of satellites for China's Guowang broadband network on Wednesday (Aug. 13). It was the fourth Guowang launch in less than three weeks.

Europe's Ariane 6 heavy-lift rocket launched for the third time ever tonight (Aug. 12), sending an advanced weather and climate satellite to orbit.

SpaceX launched a batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites on Monday (Aug. 11). It was the 100th liftoff of the year already for Elon Musk's company.

SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday (Aug. 9) after living on the International Space Station for nearly five months.

SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts left the International Space Station on Friday afternoon (Aug. 8) ahead of a planned splashdown on Saturday (Aug. 9).

NASA astronaut Jim Lovell — a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 8 and the near-disastrous Apollo 13 — passed away on Aug. 7, 2025 at the age of 97.

SpaceX has signed a deal with the Italian Space Agency to fly Italian experiments on the first commercial Starship missions to Mars.

Astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore is leaving NASA after a quarter-century of service. Wilmore spent a total of 464 days off Earth during his three spaceflights.

United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur rocket will launch its first-ever national security mission on Aug. 12, if all goes according to plan.

NASA is accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the moon, aiming to establish such a power outpost by 2030, according to Politico.

NASA has stopped trying to revive its Lunar Trailblazer moon orbiter, which went dark a day after its Feb. 26 launch.

Rocket Lab launched its fifth mission for the Japanese Earth-imaging company iQPS early Tuesday morning (Aug. 5), sending a synthetic aperture radar satellite to orbit.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 28 Starlink satellites from Florida's Space Coast early Monday morning (Aug. 4), then came back to Earth for a landing on a ship at sea.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin launched Justin Sun, the billionaire founder of the blockchain platform Tron, and five other people to space on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025.

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-11 mission arrived at the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Aug. 2), less than 15 hours after lifting off.