Space agencies from around the world launched a total of 244 successful missions into orbit or space in 2024, which is the most in history. The US led the way with over half of those launches ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday ...

Go SpaceX. Go SPHEREx, Go PUNCH. SPHEREx and PUNCH on their way to map out our universe like never before and revolutionize space weather forecasting. SPHEREx is drifting away from Falcon 9’s ...

Liberland now joins the United States, Japan, China, India, and the Soviet Union, aka Russia, which have all planted their flags into space. Copernic Space has launched an NFT collection to mark ...

Established in 2023 by King Salman, the day honors when King Abdul Aziz approved the official flag design in 1937—but the roots of this iconic banner go back nearly 300 years to the founding of the ...

The Gateway space station will be humanity’s first space station around the Moon as a vital component of the Artemis missions to return humans to the lunar surface for scientific discovery and chart ...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is taking over as the CEO of Relativity Space, a 9-year-old rocket startup, a company spokesperson confirmed in a statement to TechCrunch. This is Schmidt’s first ...

Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has taken a controlling interest in the Long Beach, California-based Relativity Space. The New York Times first reported the change becoming official ...

Mr. Schmidt, 69, succeeds Relativity Space’s current chief and co-founder, Timothy Ellis, the two people said.It is unclear how much money Mr. Schmidt has invested in the start-up.

Varda Space Industries' W-2 space capsule reentered Earth's atmosphere and touched down in the Australian outback last month, becoming the first commercial spacecraft to land Down Under.

Flags in Texas, Massachusetts, Iowa, and South Carolina remained at half-staff this week to honor former politicians and legislators from the state who recently passed away. Among them was US ...