In late 2023, I flew in space. But I didn't fly as a NASA astronaut or a space tourist. Instead, I flew on a training and research mission aboard a Virgin Galactic spaceplane for my company, the ...

The choice of the Boeing 747 as the primary aircraft to ferry the Space Shuttle orbiter was a decision rooted in the jumbo jet’s size, strength, and availability during the 1970s. This unique ...

Update for 8:42p.m. ET: SpaceX successfully launched its Starship Flight 11 rocket into space, with its Super Heavy booster making a planned - and controlled - splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...

It’s been a week since SpaceX launched the huge Starship rocket for the 11th time in a flight test that was widely considered a success. The first-stage Super Heavy — the most powerful booster ever ...

A special exemption allowed a NASA-funded weather balloon to launch as planned Oct. 1, despite the ongoing government shutdown that began that day. But news about the balloon, and an exoplanet-hunting ...

SpaceX closed a troubled but instructive chapter in its Starship rocket program Monday with a near-perfect test flight that carried the stainless steel spacecraft halfway around the world from South ...

ESPN reporter Brian Windhorst had a terrifying in-flight experience Monday when his American Airlines flight from Omaha to Los Angeles had to make an emergency landing due to a suspected invasion in ...

SpaceX’s luck appears to be turning, as the company notched a second straight successful test flight of the Starship launch system — the most powerful rocket ever constructed — on Monday evening. The ...

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Sunday that it is investigating an airliner that was struck by an object in its windscreen, mid-flight, over Utah. “NTSB gathering radar, weather, ...

• SpaceX’s Starship megarocket — the most powerful launch vehicle ever built — successfully completed an hour-long test flight. • The company has had a rocky year of test missions with this generation ...

Jupiter native Kellie Gerardi became the 90th woman to visit space on a Virgin Galactic flight in 2023. The Town of Jupiter honored the astronaut by naming Nov. 2 "Kellie Gerardi Day." Gerardi is ...