Aerospace

The latest catastrophic explosion of a Starship upper stage is a significant setback for SpaceX

Starbase, SpaceX’s launch site turned company town in South Texas, faces local opposition from residents outside the city limits

Kosmos-482, a failed mission to Venus from the former Soviet Union that stalled in Earth orbit in the 1970s, is about to fall back to our planet. Exactly where or when it will strike, however, remains unknown

The privately funded Fram2 mission is the first ever to take astronauts into polar orbit—and the latest sign of a “new normal” for human spaceflight

Have you seen something inexplicable in the sky? Jon Kosloski, director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, wants to hear from you

Chris Rocheleau, Trump’s pick for acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration, has been a longtime agency official and has acknowledged the need to address global warming

The accident that resulted in a commercial airplane crashing into the Potomac yesterday will require air safety investigators to dig deep

We need less uproar over everyday drones and more critical attention about ones near airports and other restricted airspace

Surging reports of strange drones in the skies over New Jersey and other parts of the northeastern U.S. have spurred calls to shoot down the unidentified objects. But that’s a very bad idea

Mysterious drone sightings over New Jersey and New York State are underscoring the high number of these vehicles in the U.S.

Reports of unidentified flying objects in the northeastern U.S. are on the rise, but so far officials have few answers for alarmed residents

The sixth test flight of SpaceX’s giant rocket ended with a fiery splashdown rather than a clean “chopstick” catch