Boeing Starliner program lead Mark Nappi discussed the pros and cons of public-private partnerships in the company’s space efforts at the SpaceCom convention in Orlando.

The tally of publicly traded companies in the U.S. fell from about 8,800 in 1997 to just 3,952 by the end of 2024. The famed ...

A Hall thruster is a high-efficiency propulsion device using plasma that is used for various difficult space missions, such ...

UN planetary defence organisations are closely monitoring an asteroid that has a tiny risk of hitting the Earth. The European ...

Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico could drastically affect two of Musk's most prominent companies, SpaceX and Tesla.

Moon rocks have also made brief visits at the White House. During Trump's first term in office, a different Apollo 17 rock ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday called for increased transparency and potential cuts to federal funding for Elon Musk ...

Benjamin Tackett, a St. Charles native and product of D303 schools, and now an aerospace engineer currently working on a mission headed for the moon.

Will the 2025 launch total set another new record? Stay tuned. Crews at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and neighboring Cape ...

The Falcon 9 lifted off at 5:05 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 40 on the Starlink 12-7 mission, which deployed 21 more satellites into the company's ever-growing internet constellation in low-Earth ...

Maybe Trump, Vance, and Zuckerberg, and Bezos could join you. Bon Voyage!

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Then Monday evening, SpaceX will target a one-hour window from 6:32 p.m. to 7:32 p.m. to launch another Falcon 9 from NASA's Kennedy Space ...