Billionaire Elon Musk believes we're probably characters in a video game played by advanced civilisations.

SpaceX has now landed three rocket stages.

A small team of Kiwi scientists expect to keep working with SpaceX as the California-based company makes an ambitious push for Mars.

Despite a perfect record of successful spaceflights, ULA chief Tory Bruno is under pressure to compete with SpaceX.

Billionaire Elon Musk and actress Talulah Riley are making another attempt to end their second marriage.

Falcon 9 rocket come close - but not close enough - to making the first sea landing of a booster rocket.

Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 booster had a "hard landing" and broke a landing leg on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.

SpaceX is heading back into orbit today - with an ambitious attempt to land its reusable rocket on land.

SpaceX boss Elon Musk says a recent explosion was the company's first failure in seven years and maybe complacency played a part.

Meet the four astronauts going on the first commercial mission to space.

Paul Allen and Richard Branson are focusing on breakthrough spaceflight closer to home: cheap cargo trips to Earth orbit.

The fight over lucrative contracts to launch national security satellites between SpaceX and the ULA has grown even more contentious.

Entrepreneurs are expanding the boundaries of rocket and satellite technology as the US makes room for private enterprise.

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, warns about artificial intelligence, saying it could be more threatening than nuclear weapons.

The unmanned Antares rocket that blew up in a spectacular fireball in the United States during a launch to the International Space Station was using two 40-year-old Soviet-made rocket engines of the same type as one that exploded during tests in May.