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NASA's next Martian vehicle is finally supporting its own weight.  The space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California released the brief time-lapse video above showing the Mars 2020 rover's six wheels and legs taking on the full pull of Earth. …

NASA and its commercial astronaut program partners are laser-focused on getting crew into space, but to get to space you first have to get to the rocket, and that’s where the Airstream Astrovan II comes in. This vehicle, which is the sequel to the original As…

At this week’s International Astronautical Congress, where the space industry, international space agencies and researchers from around the world convene to discuss the state of space technology and business, I asked NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about w…

Elon Musk-owned SpaceX plans to start offering broadband through its Starlink satellite by the next year. SpaceX president and COO, Gwynne Shotwell, said yesterday the company is confident in achieving this goal. Shotwell mentioned during a media roundtable …

i-Space, a Bejing-based space company, showed off its reusable rocket, Hyperbola-2,  for the first time in public last week. According to reports from the Chinese media, the firm aims to launch it into space in 2021.  The rocket uses liquid oxygen-methane pr…

Itll require a few more yearsand thousands of more satellitesbefore SpaceXs Starlink internet constellation achieves full functionality, but that didnt stop Elon Musk from participating in an early test of the system, which apparently worked. Late last night…

Rocket Lab has been increasing the altitude of its missions in recent months, but now it wants to venture much, much farther. The private spaceflight firm now intends to help launch missions to higher Earth orbits, lunar orbit and even Lagrange points. It'll …

Space is becoming a major area of startup and commercial investment, and so I’ve decided to start providing a weekly round-up of the biggest news in aerospace, space science and space-related technologies. Let me know if you appreciate this or have suggestion…

Elon Musk regularly switches to a new cell phone and sometimes destroys his old phone for security reasons, according to an October 14 legal filing. The filing includes a signed statement from a SpaceX information-technology employee dated October 1.  Read …

NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir made history on Friday, embarking upon the first ever all-female spacewalk. Finally. Residents of the International Space Station, the pair ventured outside the ISS to replace a power controller that failed dur…