This weekly newsletter preview explores the people, policy fights and political battles behind America’s new space age, and it’s just an introduction. Subscribe to POLITICO Pro for the full newsletter ...

A permanent Moon base is moving closer to reality in 2026. The NASA Authorization Act 2026 has given clear political backing. It targets early lunar base infrastructure by 2030. Billions are already ...

In 2025, China set a national record for orbital launches in a single year with over 90 launches. Chinese investment in its ...

Remembering America's famous "astrochimps" with photos of Ham and his cohorts taken before and after his wild 1961 ride ...

But the big picture here is that the US Senate has put out one of its most important pieces of spaceflight legislation in decades: Senators have instructed Isaacman to go fly the Artemis program with ...

To win the superpower race to the Moon, the U.S. could launch a super-speed crusade to develop a lander that beats Chinese taikonauts to the lunar surface. Shown here is Lockheed's leading-edge Orion ...

On July 23, the US government released a document entitled “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan.” This plan identifies over 90 federal policy actions that the US government will take in the ...

As SpaceX’s Starship rocket thundered into the South Texas sky this week, a crowd of employees outside mission control began to chant, “U-S-A, U-S-A!” It was the second successful test flight after a ...

Google, SpaceX and Blue Origin are reportedly racing to develop technology for AI data centers in space, but it will likely be years before we see them rocketing into the sky, experts say. Subscribe ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Blockchain technology is democratizing space by enabling decentralized ownership and governance, shifting control from traditional ...

Axiom, Orbital Reef, Starlab, and Vast: Which of these four teams will replace the International Space Station?