Japan’s private Space One Kairos rocket explodes after launch failure during 3rd test flight

The Japanese company Space One launched its Kairos rocket for the third time ever today (March 4). The rocket failed, as it did on its first two attempts.

SpaceX deploys two more Starlink groups into orbit on March 1 bicoastal launches (video)

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida lofted 54 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit on Sunday, March 1, 2026.

Firefly Aerospace scrubs Alpha rocket’s return to flight due to high winds

Firefly Aerospace scrubbed the planned return-to-flight mission of its Alpha rocket on Sunday (March 1) due to high winds. A new target date has not yet been announced.

Is it legal to own, buy, or sell Apollo mission moon rocks and lunar samples?

NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials.

‘Pushing this competition’: SpaceX’s Starship might not fly on NASA’s newly revamped Artemis 3 mission

NASA’s Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon —and it might not involve SpaceX’s Starship megarocket, either.

February finale: SpaceX wraps up month with three Starlink launches this week

Two Falcon 9 launches from Florida and one from California deployed 83 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, wrapping up February 2026 for the SpaceX network.

NASA’s Artemis 3 astronauts won’t land on the moon after all. ‘This is just not the right pathway forward.’

NASA is changing its plans to return astronauts to the moon, and redrawing the architecture for how the Artemis missions will look moving forward.

Artemis 2 moon rocket rolls back to the shop | Space photo of the day Feb. 27, 2026

NASA brought its mega moon rocket back into the shop for repairs on Feb. 25, 2026, just as the sun was setting over the Florida Space Coast.

Curiosity rover finds clues to Mars’ watery past in rocky ‘spiderwebs’

The web-like features are believed to be sculpted by ancient groundwater, offering new clues about the Red Planet’s watery past.

Artemis 2 moon mission shouldn’t launch until late 2026, new analysis of solar superflares suggests

A new method of predicting when a superflare will erupt from the sun suggests that we are in the middle of such a period now — and that could be bad news for the Artemis 2 astronauts.