There is an expensive reason for the zigzag lines of thin clouds in the Fresno skies that many spotted Thursday. An Alpha rocket, launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base by an aerospace startup company, soared through the skies just after sunset as part of a responsive space mission called Victus Nox.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal said Thursday that they question whether an electronic records system is partly to blame for the military’s failure to get enough recruits into basic training because it has led to delays in clearing them medically.

Ramstein Air Base will be the headquarters of a new Space Force service component for Europe and Africa, according to the Air Force.

United Launch Alliance managed what was only its second launch of the year, sending up an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The US Space Force is planning to expand its footprint in the Indo-Pacific region with a new subordinate command in Japan, a senior enlisted leader said.

The U.S. General Accounting Office will investigate the decision to locate U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo.

Airman, guardians and civilians throughout the Department of the Air Force have until Sept. 4 to submit ideas to the seventh annual competition.

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is calling for a federal investigation into the process leading to President Joe Biden’s decision to make permanent the U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado.

The mission of a $700 million satellite nearly ready for launch is to study the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, which scientists suspect could mirror the inner core of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

Alabama Attorney Gen. Steve Marshall is “demanding” a federal investigation into the Defense Department’s decision to put U.S. Space Command headquarters in Colorado.