The conditional approval will require the Project Kuiper team to report launches on a semi-annual basis and retire satellites after seven years.
Ongoing glitches aren't preventing the indefatigable probe from laying important groundwork for future lunar missions.
Ongoing thruster problems have forced a major re-think of NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission, with a monthly orbit now planned for the cubesat.
All but two of the rocket's 33 Raptor engines were engaged during the critical test, which SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says is still enough for an orbital launch.
The company's CEO says a filter likely became dislodged within the rocket's second stage, leading to the crash.
Quaoar, a dwarf planet, has a ring system twice as far out as previously thought possible.
The U.S. Space Force is tracking 85 fragments associated with the unexplained breakup event.
The sudden change in geography should result in a slight delay to the mission, but it'll allow NASA to explore the region ahead of its crewed Artemis missions.
The Elon Musk-led company continues to launch rockets at a breakneck pace, with 16 flights of Falcon 9 in the past nine weeks alone.
The roughly Colosseum-sized rock marks a new kind of target for Webb Space Telescope.
The rock, dubbed Cacao, is made of iron and nickel, NASA says.
The company's prototype is a smaller version of the nuclear reactor it's hoping to send to the Moon by 2029.
SpaceX replaced some Raptor engines last week in preparation for a Starship static fire engine test that could happen this week.
The NASA rover is approaching its second year on Mars (in Earth time), and there are overcast days ahead.
With the discovery of several more moons around the gas giant, Jupiter has narrowly beat out Saturn as the moon king. For now, at least.
Virgin Orbit just received a $10 million boost from Branson’s investment company, marking its third cash injection in as many months.
The white dwarf is the dead core of a star that burned out a billion years ago.
The universe’s stuff is less clumpy than previously thought, according to new research.
The binary system will end in a massive, gold-forming explosion.
The upcoming 1.4-million-gallon liquid hydrogen tank at Kennedy Space Center will increase the rate at which NASA can conduct launch attempts.
