By Eric Lipton Citing rapid advances by China and Russia, the United States is building ... was set to welcome Space Command, until a distant force beyond its control intervened: politics.

The SpaceX Polaris Dawn mission may wind down this weekend. Here are all the ways its crew of four citizen astronauts has ...

This is an issue we all have a stake in—here's how the U.S. Space Force is working to tackle it. Space may seem nearly endless, but our orbit is finite. With no international laws in place to ...

A senior Space Force general is calling for the service ... The head of Space Command has called for the United States to develop what he calls “space fires”—a clear reference to some ...

SpaceX will launch two European navigation satellites tonight (Sept. 17), weather permitting. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying two spacecraft for Europe's Galileo satnav constellation is scheduled to lift ...

The US Space Force, which oversees the X-37B, describes it as a reusable, uncrewed spacecraft that “strengthens the United States’ future in space by conducting technology experiments that ...

Polaris Dawn, the private SpaceX mission currently orbiting Earth, has already set several records since its launch on 10 ...

Join our newsletter to get the latest military space news every Tuesday by veteran defense journalist Sandra Erwin. NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations for the ...

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Jared Isaacman was just a high-school dropout living in his parents’ basement in New Jersey before he became a tech ...

Late last week, United Airlines announced that it signed an agreement with Elon Musk's SpaceX to bring its Starlink internet service to its entire fleet and — for the first time — offer free Wi-Fi to ...

WASHINGTON - AUGUST 16: A United Airlines aircraft passes by a Continental Airlines aircraft as it ... [+] taxis to takeoff from the runway of Ronald Reagan National Airport August 16, 2006 in ...