NASA begins demolishing outdated facilities in Alabama as new administrator Jared Isaacman launches major infrastructure modernization efforts for space exploration.

SpaceX is mulling an IPO in 2026. Here’s how that could affect its work with NASA and the push to put humans on Mars

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars' landscape truly is.

After 2025 brought both success and stumbles, 2026 is set to be a landmark year for space, with NASA's Artemis 2 set to launch a close flyby of the other side of the moon, China planning its own lunar landing and more.

The increasing number of commercial space launches and the upward trend in upmass serve as unmistakable signs of space industry growth. Space is a high-risk, high-reward industry, however. Space launches are expensive, and space companies often operate at a loss for years while developing their businesses.

As space scales into daily infrastructure, which moments in 2026 will still feel new -and which will quietly change everything?

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth. Humans should expand into the cosmos in the same way that, were the situation reversed, we would wish alien life to expand towards us: carefully, respectfully and in happy anticipation. ■

It's been a quiet few weeks over the holiday season as the last Space Coast launch was Dec. 17. This left the 2025 record sitting at 109. While it was a record launch year for Florida, it was a record year for SpaceX as well. Florida-based Falcon 9 rockets accounted for 101 of those 109 launches.

From crewed lunar voyages to flight tests of fully reusable rockets and launches of new orbital telescopes studying the outer limits of the cosmos, 2026 should be a banner year for space science and e

The promise of space investment for democracies is straightforward: exportable technologies, quality jobs, resilient communications and stronger intelligence.