Starship Explosions Show SpaceX No Longer Defying Gravity
For SpaceX, 2025 should have been the best year yet. Elon Musk, the founder of the private space company, is one of the most influential people in the Oval Office,…
Intuitive Machines’ Athena Lander Is on the Moon, but Its Fate Is Unclear
Athena didn’t crash. But what did happen to it? Hours after the 15-foot-tall robotic spacecraft arrived at the moon’s surface, closer to the lunar south pole than any spacecraft has…
Intuitive Machines Moon Landing: Live Updates
Updated March 6, 2025, 9:00 a.m. ET With NASA again picking up the bill, Intuitive Machines of Houston is going back to the moon. On Thursday, the company will attempt…
How to Watch the Launch of Intuitive Machines’s Second Moon Landing Mission
Intuitive Machines landed a robot on the moon last year. Can the Houston company do it again, but keep the spacecraft upright this time? When the spacecraft, named Odysseus, set…
William R. Lucas, Official Blamed in Challenger Tragedy, Dies at 102
William R. Lucas, who oversaw development of rockets for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and shouldered much of the institutional blame for the catastrophic explosion that killed all seven…
Overlooked No More: Annie Easley, Who Helped Take Spaceflight to New Heights
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. On May 8, 1962, a powerful rocket…
Elon Musk Suggests SpaceX Will Accelerate Return of NASA Astronauts
In a post on X on Tuesday evening, Elon Musk said President Trump had asked his rocket company SpaceX to bring home “as soon as possible” two NASA astronauts who…
Elon Musk Suggests SpaceX Will Accelerate Return of NASA Astronauts
In a post on X on Tuesday evening, Elon Musk said President Trump had asked his rocket company SpaceX to bring home “as soon as possible” two NASA astronauts who…
What Trump’s Pledge to Plant the U.S. Flag on Mars Really Means
During his Inaugural Address on Monday, President Donald J. Trump again promised to launch American astronauts to Mars. Seated nearby, Elon Musk, a political benefactor of Mr. Trump who founded…
SpaceX Starship Rocket Is Lost During 7th Test Launch, Causing Debris to Fall
The seventh test flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket failed on Thursday as the vehicle’s upper stage experienced a catastrophic malfunction as it headed upward to space. SpaceX was able to…