Elon Musk celebrated his 55th birthday with his mother and Shivon Zilis, the mother of four of his children.

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — Space Launch Complex 14. The last time it was used, it was 1966. It sent up the crewed Gemini 12 mission, the last one for the Gemini program. Four years earlier, ...

Today's Mars rovers typically drive at about 500 to 1,000 feet per hour — roughly the length of one to three football fields ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has selected Rocket Lab to launch a pair of science missions on three Electron rockets in 2027. NASA ...

The long-awaited $450 million Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center at the California Science Center will officially open its ...

Science fans will soon get the chance to see the Space Shuttle Endeavour in its ready-to-launch position at the California ...

Thirty years ago, the staff of the California Science Center had a vision of one day bringing a space shuttle to the City of ...

The space shuttle Endeavour, which took astronauts into orbit 25 times, went on display at the California Science Center on ...

Of 142 small-launch startups tracked at Rocket Lab's (RKLB) founding, Beck says only SpaceX and RKLB achieved reliable orbital cadence. Northrop Grumman (NOC) and Lockheed Martin (LMT) run massive ...

A little more than five years ago, a shiny white Falcon 9 rocket made its debut flight, boosting a Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Over the next year, it would launch a ...

Reusable rockets changed the economics of space. SpaceX turned launches into repeatable commercial operations, making new space business models viable. Lower launch costs underpin the entire space ...

NASA was winding down its space-shuttle program during the Bush administration when Houston realized it had a problem: None of the four retiring space shuttle orbiters were bound for Texas, even ...