NASA plans to pay Elon Musk nearly $850 million to scrap its old space station. Other companies will pay him even more money to replace it. For nearly a decade,…
It has been 34 years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into the harsh and unforgiving environment of Earth's orbit. It is about 320 miles (515 kilometers) above our…
The Japanese billionaire who commissioned SpaceX for a private mission around the moon with a Starship rocket abruptly canceled the project, citing continued uncertainty over when the launch vehicle would…
Orlando, Fla. - A Japanese billionaire who was the first commercial customer of SpaceX's Starship vehicle has abruptly backed out of his proposed quixotic lunar mission. In an announcement on…
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa won't be shooting for the moon with SpaceX's Starship after all. Maezawa, who booked a private trip around the moon on SpaceX's Starship megarocket in 2018,…
Zoom in / Elon Musk speaks as Yusaku Maezawa, founder and president of Start Today Co., watches an event at SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif., in 2018.Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via…
NASA's iconic Hubble Observatory still has years of life left in it, and there are ideas in the works to perhaps keep it around longer — but those proposals may…
It's been 15 years since NASA's groundbreaking Hubble Space Telescope was last manned by astronauts.And the aging observatory, which has been orbiting our planet in low Earth orbit since 1990,…