SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in the next few months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after liftoff Sunday. No one was aboard for the wild ride in the skies above Cape Canaveral, just two mannequins. The nine-minute flight ended with the Dragon crew capsule parachuting safely into the Atlantic, after separating and…

SpaceX launched 60 more mini internet satellites late Monday, this time testing a dark coating to appease stargazers.

The Falcon rocket blasted off Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The compact flat-panel satellites — just 575 pounds (260 kilograms) each — will join 60 launched in May.

The Air Force’s mystery space plane is back on Earth, following a record-breaking two-year mission. The X-37B landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Sunday. The Air Force is mum about what the plane did in orbit after launching aboard a SpaceX rocket in 2017. The 780-day mission sets a new endurance record for the reusable test vehicle....

Elon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to carry a crew and cargo to the moon, Mars or anywhere else in the solar system and land back on Earth perpendicularly.

The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space plane just broke its spaceflight-duration record, NBC News reported. At 6:43 a.m. EDT on Monday, the robotic X-37B sailed past the program mark of 717 days, 20 hours and 42 minutes, which was set by the previous mission, known as Orbital Test Vehicle 4 (OTV-4). Read More

SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites early Tuesday. It marked the military’s first ride on a recycled rocket. Both side boosters landed back at Cape Canaveral, but the new core booster missed an ocean platform.

Elon Musk’s space company, SpaceX, is now worth more than his electric car company, Tesla — at least on paper. SpaceX is valued at $33.3 billion, investors familiar with the company’s latest round told CNBC on Friday. Tesla’s market cap was $32.8 billion at the end of trading Friday. Musk is the largest shareholder and CEO of both companies, with...

Elon Musk has poked fun, in a rather crude way, at Jeff Bezos’ new spacecraft. On Thursday, Bezos’ space company Blue Origin unveiled its first lunar lander called “Blue Moon.”

SpaceX finally confirmed Thursday its crew capsule was destroyed in ground testing two weeks ago and conceded that the accident is “not great news” for the company’s effort to launch astronauts this year.

SpaceX delayed a supply run Friday to the International Space Station, back to full power and accepting deliveries after quick repairs. A Falcon rocket was poised to blast off before dawn Friday, with a Dragon cargo capsule. But an electrical problem cropped up at the last minute with the ocean platform needed to recover the first-stage booster following liftoff. SpaceX...

Southern California-based SpaceX scrubbed a scheduled launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket Wednesday because of unfavorable weather conditions at the launch site on the coast of Florida. The company said it plans to try again Thursday.

Idiosyncratic Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk released a surprise rap song about Harambe, the gorilla that was killed by zookeepers after a toddler fell into his enclosure in 2016.

SpaceX’s swanky new crew capsule made an old-fashioned splashdown in the Atlantic on Friday, ending a six-day test flight to the International Space Station. The Dragon capsule pulled away from the orbiting lab early Friday. Six hours later, the capsule carrying a test dummy parachuted into the ocean, a couple hundred miles off the Florida coast. SpaceX employees cheered and...

SpaceX launched another rocket Thursday. The Southern-California based aerospace company was set to launch their Falcon 9 rocket Thursday at 5:45 p.m. PST from the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.

Lawyers for Elon Musk on Wednesday filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against him related to tweets calling a British rescue diver a “pedo guy,” saying the comments were exaggerated and Twitter itself is “infamous for invective and hyperbole.” Diver Vernon Unsworth sued Musk in September for libel and slander and is seeking at least $75,000 in compensatory damages....

Space fans had plenty to celebrate in 2018, including the launch of three new NASA missions and the debut of SpaceX’s giant Falcon Heavy rocket. In case you missed any of the action, here are particularly noteworthy space stories, according to NBC News MACH. NASA’s InSight lander arrived at Mars on Nov. 26 after a six-month journey of more than...