Third time not the charm for SpaceX with launch abort

It was the company's third attempt in a row to launch a powerful SES communications satellite

• Feb 28, 2016

MIT students win Hyperloop design competition

More than 1,000 student engineers competed to design pods for Elon Musk's super-high-speed transit system

• Feb 1, 2016

Satellite launched to monitor sea level, global warming

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted an environment research satellite into orbit, but first stage landing try not successful

• Jan 17, 2016

Winged "Dream Chaser" joins space station cargo fleet

NASA awards space station cargo delivery contracts to SpaceX, Orbital ATK and Sierra Nevada to keep the lab supplied through 2024

• Jan 14, 2016

Experts applaud SpaceX rocket landing

Space experts take wait-and-see attitude on feasibility of flying used rockets

• Dec 22, 2015

SpaceX launches, lands a Falcon 9 rocket

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roars into space, launching 11 satellites in a flight highlighted by the landing of the booster's first stage

• Dec 22, 2015

Blue Origin successfully launches - and lands - rocket

The New Shepard spacecraft successfully completed a sub-orbital test fight in a major "space tourism" milestone

• Nov 24, 2015

First private moon mission set for 2017

Private space race heats up as Google Lunar XPrize competitors get one important step closer to $20 million - and the moon

• Oct 7, 2015

Boeing unveils "Starliner" spacecraft assembly plans

Boeing reveals the name of its new commercial manned spacecraft and shows off its repurposed assembly plant

• Sep 4, 2015

Former NASA scientist turning space into a business

Former NASA scientist-turned-business owner sees his satellite company as the first step into a vast, burgeoning frontier

• Aug 23, 2015

Space elevator could lift people 12 miles up

A Canadian company has gotten a patent for the system, which some see as a cheaper alternative to rocket launches

• Aug 18, 2015

NASA's Kelly urges full funding for new ships to ISS

Astronaut Scott Kelly, spending a year in space, hopes NASA will get "support we need" to develop commercial U.S. crew ships

• Aug 17, 2015

Soyuz with crew of three set for launch to station

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft prepares to take three fresh crew members to the space station after a series of failures

• Jul 21, 2015

NASA astronauts picked for Boeing, SpaceX ISS flights

NASA has selected four astronauts to train for flights to the space station aboard Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew ships

• Jul 9, 2015

Musk: Falcon 9 launch failure "a huge blow to SpaceX"

Elon Musk says SpaceX engineers have not yet determined what caused an explosion that destroyed 2 tons of cargo bound for ISS

• Jul 7, 2015

SpaceX set for space station launch

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship bound for the space station is set for launch Sunday morning

• Jun 27, 2015

​Elon Musk to build Hyperloop test track in California

The SpaceX CEO's hypothetical high-speed people mover is getting real

• Jun 15, 2015

Ultra-fast "Hyperloop" train gets California test track

The hypothetical Hyperloop gets a step closer to shuttling people between Los Angeles and San Francisco at 750 mph

• May 26, 2015

First-hand view of spaceship emergency escape

This is what it looks like when you bail out of a space launch, courtesy of Elon Musk and SpaceX

• May 22, 2015

Russian spacecraft falls to Earth

Unmanned cargo ship had been spiraling out of control since last week

• May 8, 2015

Web billionaires face off in renewed Texas space race

Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin share a state and a goal, but the similarities end there

• Apr 27, 2015

SpaceX cargo ship reaches space station

Cargo ship loaded with 2 tons of equipment, including an espresso maker, arrives at International Space Station

• Apr 17, 2015

ULA unveils new rocket to replace Russian boosters

United Launch Alliance's Vulcans will replace Delta and Atlas boosters and have reusable engines, rivaling SpaceX rockets

• Apr 14, 2015