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Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch for record-breaking 36th time early on July 9

By Mike Wall Published 8 July 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-breaking 36th time early Thursday morning (July 9), and you can watch the action live.

Japanese company books 1,100 pounds of cargo space on SpaceX Starship mission to the moon

By Josh Dinner Published 8 July 26

The Japanese company ispace is expanding its already extensive moon plans to include SpaceX's Starship megarocket.

Shoebox-sized 'detector satellites' could sniff out a nuclear bomb in space

By Tereza Pultarova Published 8 July 26

A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on satellites launched by adversary nations, a new study suggests.

'That's going to come back and bite us': Former NASA chief questions Artemis moon lander plans

By Josh Dinner Published 7 July 26

Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA's commercial moon landers for its Artemis program.

SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered commercial satellite

By Josh Dinner Published 7 July 26

A satellite aboard SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and operated spacecraft to harness nuclear energy in orbit.

SpaceX launches 81 satellites to orbit from California, lands rocket on ship at sea

By Mike Wall Last updated 7 July 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 81 payloads to orbit from California early Tuesday morning (July 7), then landed on a ship at sea.

Human flight was still 7 years away in 1776. Now, we're headed back to the moon

By Mike Wall Published 4 July 26

Humanity made some halting steps toward flight over the centuries, but our species was still firmly rooted on the ground when the United States of America was born on July 4, 1776.

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satellites from California

By Robert Z. Pearlman Published 2 July 26

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday, July 1, 2026.

SpaceX fires up all 6 of Starship's engines ahead of 13th test flight (video)

By Josh Dinner Published 2 July 26

SpaceX completed a Starship engine test at its Starbase facility recently, igniting all six of the vehicle's engines for a full minute.

The growing number of satellites in orbit could soon make telescopes obsolete. 'For astronomy, this would obviously be catastrophic'

By Tereza Pultarova Published 1 July 26

If the number of satellites in Earth's orbit exceeds 100,000, humanity may lose its ability to study the universe from the planet's surface. Some companies want to put millions into space.