Space

Rep. James Comer (R-KY).

Comer suggests something ‘sinister’ behind 11 missing scientists

Molly Parks · April 20, 2026 4:13 pm

NASA’s Artemis II rocket launches a 10-day mission around the moon, traveling roughly 230,000 miles from Earth — the farthest humans have traveled, April 1, Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Gregg Newton/Getty Images)

How Trump put America back in space, and what comes next

The Artemis II crew – from left, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Pilot Victor Glover, and Commander Reid Wiseman – pause for a group photo inside the Orion spacecraft on their way home.

Artemis II crew shares lunar larks after historic journey around moon and back

Space Force General Stephen Whiting, Commander of United States Space Command (USSPACECOM), speaks during a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing, Thursday, March 26, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Russia planning to put nuclear weapons in space, US general warns

NASA Artemis Moonshot

White House orders NASA and Pentagon to develop nuclear space reactors

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket payload fairing is seen with the NASA and Parker Solar Probe emblems, Wednesday at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Parker Solar Probe will travel through the sun's atmosphere, closer to the surface than any other spacecraft before it.

NASA launching probe that will ‘touch’ the sun

Daniel Chaitin August 9, 2018 2:13 pm

Joe Manchik Green Party

Green Party spoiler candidate in Ohio special election claims to be descended from aliens

Katelyn Caralle August 8, 2018 3:48 pm

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks at the Pentagon.

Jim Mattis says there is ‘complete agreement’ between DOD, White House on Space Force

Travis J. Tritten August 7, 2018 6:54 pm

President Trump speaks to reporters at the White House in Washington.

Trump wants a Space Force, but Pentagon has different idea

Associated Press August 4, 2018 1:29 pm

Thule Air Base in Greenland is pictured above.

Air Force says no damage from Greenland meteor

Travis J. Tritten August 3, 2018 8:01 pm

SpaceX chief engineer Elon Musk, second from left, talks to the media with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, left, and NASA astronauts crew Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, right, in front of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, about the progress to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station, from American soil, as part of the agencyâs commercial crew program at SpaceX headquarters, in Hawthorne, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019.

NASA releases list of astronauts who will travel to space from US soil

Katelyn Caralle August 3, 2018 4:40 pm

President Trump speaks to service members at Miramar Air Corps Air Station, Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego.

Pentagon to take steps toward creating Trump’s Space Force: Report

Jamie McIntyre July 31, 2018 12:45 pm

This image shows an artist's rendering of the Mars Express spacecraft (pictured below center) probing the southern hemisphere of Mars.

Scientists find evidence of liquid water lake on Mars

Mandy Mayfield July 25, 2018 7:14 pm

President Trump shows off a "Space Policy Directive" after signing it during a meeting of the National Space Council in the East Room of the White House on June 18 in Washington.

Despite mirth, memes, and mockery, Trump’s ‘Space Force’ is no farce

Jamie McIntyre July 1, 2018 4:00 am

At Senate Armed Services, low enthusiasm for Trump’s Space Force

Travis J. Tritten June 26, 2018 8:01 pm

Astronauts Neil Armstrong, left, and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., place an American flag on the surface of the moon Sunday July 20, 1969, near the lunar lander that brought them to the lunar surface.

Military recruiters already signing up ‘Space Force’

Paul Bedard June 26, 2018 12:43 pm

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Monday, April 2, 2018. The spacecraft is on its 14th operational cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Trump makes Commerce Department the new space agency

Sean Higgins June 26, 2018 4:01 am