Space

Virgin Galactic Holdings shares surged Thursday following news a space-themed actively managed exchange-traded fund will launch later this year.

SpaceX's cargo Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday with 4,400 pounds of scientific research and other cargo. 

The U.S. Air Force picked Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. for the new 1,400-person U.S. Space Command's headquarters Wednesday. 

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Tuesday dedicated his aerospace company Blue Origin's landing platform ship to his mother.

Blue Origin expects to launch the New Glenn system in 2021.

Virgin Galactic continues to be a favorite amongst Wall Street analysts, despite the failure of the space tourism company's SpaceShipTwo Unity rocket this past weekend.

A Virgin Galactic test flight Saturday ended prematurely as the spacecraft's rocket motor failed to ignite and it then glided down safely to its landing site in southern New Mexico.

The flight was initially planned for November. But it was pushed back because of COVID-19 restrictions stemming from the state's public health orders.

Self-hep guru Tony Robbins is reportedly putting some of his money behind a Cape Canaveral start-up that wants to send people to space on board balloons.

SpaceX may launch its next test flight of a prototype of its Mars rocketship this week, founder and chief executive Elon Musk said on Twitter Sunday.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday said he recieved two positive and two negative COVID-19 tests less than two days ahead of his historic SpaceX Crew-1 mission.

Virgin Galactic is putting the world's first commercial spaceport to use later this month when it launches it's first spaceflight from Spaceport America in New Mexico, which the company expects to generate $1 billion a year annually. 

NASA has reached a key milestone with the U.S. companies competing to provide landers for future crewed missions to the moon.

Blue Origin, the space exploration company led by Amazon co-founder multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, is trying to get the U.S. Air Force to invest in the development of its New Glenn rocket, according to a media report.

NASA has picked Houston-based Intuitive Machines to land a water-measuring technology on the moon.

NASA’s first-ever agency-wide economic impact report shows the space agency’s contribution to the U.S. economy.

SpaceX, known for its reusable rockets and astronaut capsules, is ramping up satellite production for Starlink.

Boeing Co is submitting to an independent review of its compliance and ethics practices, according to an agreement struck with NASA and the U.S. Air Force and seen by Reuters, part of widening fallout from its behavior in bidding to supply lunar landing vehicles.

 The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal probe into whether NASA's former head of human spaceflight gave Boeing Co improper guidance during a lucrative lunar-lander contract competition, two people familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The U.S. Air Force awarded billions in contracts Friday to Elon Musk’s SpaceX and United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, as part of its National Security Space launch services.