The human-made "noctilucent" cloud Tuesday was both rare and spectacular, though visible for only a short period for early risers.

President Donald Trump signed a new memo to enable at least 1,000 rocket launches and reentries per year by 2030, up from 178 rocket launches in 2025. The memo is the first update to the National Space Transportation Policy since 2013, and aims to launch “the golden age of space transportation” on U.S. soil.

SpaceX just committed to building a $100 billion launch campus on a fragile Louisiana coastline, and the state is betting thousands of jobs and a delicate ecosystem on a rocket that has yet to solve its hardest engineering problem.

The $100 billion Starbase Louisiana project is expected to create thousands of jobs and begin launching Starship rockets in 2029.

China sent seven satellites into orbit Monday, while the Long March 5 rocket to launch Chang’e-7 has been rolled back and faces a year delay. A Long March 6C rocket lifted off at 11:21 p.m. Eastern, Aug.

Rocket Lab's recent dip could be a buying opportunity ahead of the debut of its medium-lift Neutron launch vehicle.

Arizonans may have a great chance to see a predawn rocket launch from the Vandenberg Space Force Base as a SpaceX Falcon 9 flies overhead.