Former United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno joins competitor Blue Origin for national security projects

Tory Bruno, the longtime chief of the launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) has joined the competition at Blue Origin.

SpaceX shatters its rocket launch record yet again — 165 orbital flights in 2025

SpaceX just set a new annual-launch record for the sixth year in a row, and the numbers are getting pretty silly.

Artemis 2 moon astronauts rehearse for launch day (photos)

The four astronauts who will fly around the moon on NASA’s Artemis 2 mission suited up, walked out and climbed aboard their spacecraft during a key prelaunch test at Kennedy Space Center.

Golden satellite insulation sparkles during test | Space photo of the day for Dec. 30, 2025

The test is designed to prepare satellites for one of the most complex tasks in space: safely approaching another object.

How NASA changed in 2025 — possibly forever

“The damage is real, but it doesn’t have to be permanent.”

Celestis books Stoke Space rocket for 2nd-ever deep space memorial flight for human remains

This historic 2026 ‘Infinite Flight’ service will blast off via a Stoke Space Nova rocket

Iran says it launched 3 satellites to space on Russian rocket: report

Iran has launched a trio of new satellites into space with the help of a Russian rocket, the country’s state media reported Sunday (Dec. 28).

12 times rockets and spacecraft crashed and burned in 2025

We saw quite a few milestones notched in the final frontier this year. But there were a number of failures as well, some of them quite dramatic.