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SpaceX: Five key moments, from first launch to Starship megarocket

More than 20 years after its founding, SpaceX made history Friday with its record-high stock market debut, crowning a unique journey marked by dazzling successes but also catastrophic failures and unfulfilled promises.

Space Exploration Jun 5, 2026

Leak on space station triggers brief safety alert

Astronauts working on the International Space Station briefly sheltered in a docked capsule Friday as Russian colleagues assessed leak repairs, NASA said.

Space Exploration Jun 4, 2026

Vast astronaut mission kicks off commercial race to replace ISS

The race to replace the aging International Space Station is heating up after US company Vast announced a mission to fly an astronaut to its planned Haven-1 station next year.

Space Exploration Jun 4, 2026

SpaceX seeks a record $75 bn in stock market debut

SpaceX, the rockets-to-AI behemoth led by Elon Musk, aims to raise $75 billion in the biggest initial share sale ever, as the world's richest person pursues data centers in space and a trip to Mars.

Space Exploration Jun 2, 2026

French astronaut to fly to commercial space station under deal

Two French astronauts are to blast into space next year, one of whom will stay on board the world's first commercial space station, under a new deal sealed between France and the U.S. company Vast.

Space Exploration May 30, 2026

How mobile deep‑space medical systems could support future landings on the moon and Mars

Around the world, people watched NASA's Artemis II mission in awe as humans returned to lunar orbit for the first time since 1972.

General Physics May 28, 2026

Leaving gravity behind: Experiment from ISS reveals how particles alter turbulent flow behavior

After traveling hundreds of miles above Earth and spending months aboard the International Space Station, a University of Delaware experiment has returned to campus, bringing new data on how turbulence behaves in microgravity.

Space Exploration May 25, 2026

China launches crewed space flight as part of moon ambitions

China launched its crewed Shenzhou-23 spacecraft and eased it into a successful docking with a space station early Monday as part of Beijing's ambitions to send humans to the moon by 2030, state media said.

Space Exploration May 24, 2026

Study shows how sunspot activity speeds up reentries

It's getting crowded up there. Over the past few years, the advent of SpaceX's Starlink and other players in the mega-satellite constellation game are adding an exponential load of satellites and orbital debris to the low ...