Space Exploration/Travel

A car-size spacecraft described as the fastest human-made object zoomed inside the sun’s atmosphere for the first time ever last spring and gathered scientific data that could help unlock the secrets of our host star,…

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin LLC launched six people to the edge of space for a few minutes on Saturday, a trip that rounded out the busiest year for human flights in more than three decades.The company’s latest…

Sian Proctor’s journey to space began in 1970, when she was born to a father who worked at a NASA tracking station during the Apollo program. She grew up in a home filled with NASA memorabilia and dreamed of…

In December, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its partners plan to launch the James Webb Space Telescope. A technological marvel 100 times as powerful as the Hubble telescope, it has enough visual acuity to examine the…

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is expected to send the actor William Shatner and three others to the edge of space Wednesday, the latest flight aimed at establishing the fledgling space-tourism market.Blue Origin is…

On a call last December with Ajit Pai, the Federal Communications Commission’s chairman at the time, Mr. Musk said that if the commission considered a proposal to begin the process of opening up a certain…

Boeing Co. BA 0.25% ’s Starliner space vehicle won’t get to attempt launch again this year, NASA officials said Wednesday, and two astronauts who were meant to fly…

Almost 50 years after humans last walked on the Moon, private capital has sparked a new space race. Shooting rich people into space gets all the press, but investors probably should pay closer attention to the more humdrum…

Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit said Boeing Co. will invest in the satellite-launching startup’s planned $3.2 billion SPAC listing later this year, an investment that comes as the plane maker’s own space program faces hurdles.…

Jeff Bezos’ space company has escalated its battle to build a moon lander for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, suing the federal government over the agency’s decision to award a sole contract for that work to…