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The growing constellation of Starlink satellites could become even brighter Friday night after another SpaceX launch in Cape Canaveral.

NASA managers gave the OK to roll out the Artemis I rocket to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center this Thursday for what it hopes is the last steps before a launch as early as May.

U.S. astronaut Mark Vande Hei has made it through nearly a year in space, but faces what could be his trickiest assignment yet: riding a Russian capsule back to Earth in the midst of deepening tensions between the countries.

Cheers rose as Astra Space’s rocket managed to do Tuesday from Alaska what it could not in a failure from the Space Coast last month.

Blue Origin announced the next set of civilians to take a flight on its New Shepard rocket, and while Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson may be the headliner, Winter Park power couple Marc and Sharon Hagle will also be taking the ride finally scratching a bug that’s been in the works for more than 15 years.

After 148 launches lighting up the sky and 110 landmark booster landings, SpaceX celebrated a new, terrestrial milestone Monday — its 20th birthday.

The test rocket wasn’t very big and it didn’t go that high, but officials with Space Coast company Vaya Space were thrilled with the results.

The Space Force has delayed its planned mission with United Launch Alliance that was slated to lift off this month from Cape Canaveral, so now the next Atlas V rocket aims to bring the long-delayed Boeing CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station.

Congress is set to approve a new federal budget nearly 10 months after President Biden’s original request, and while NASA isn’t getting as much as it wanted overall, its Artemis budget for missions to the moon is actually more than originally requested.

The Sunshine State’s night sky may be one of the most likely places for sightings of unidentified flying objects in the country, according to data compiled by online research source.