What does it take to end a nearly four-decade pause in lunar soft landings? In December 2013, China answered with precision engineering, myth-inspired symbolism and a rover named after a rabbit. A ...

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract to deliver two rovers and three scientific instruments to the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Like a giant Roman candle, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket soared into the night sky on Wednesday, carrying Intuitive Machines’ IM-2 lunar lander. Its destination is the moon, where ...

As for Rocket Lab (RKLB), the launch provider is fresh from reporting revenue of $155 million for the third quarter, its highest on record. The Long Beach, Calif.-based company has completed more ...

The picture-perfect launch of twin Escapade orbiters bound for Mars presages a fantastical new age in exploring the planets, ...

The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.

Europe's plans to develop a robotic lunar lander are moving ahead with the announcement of an Italy-led consortium that will ...

Hakuto-r captures a rare “terrestrial sunrise” during a total eclipse just before crashing into the Moon, revealing the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Japanese company ispace announced that it believes its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander has been lost while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday afternoon. This is the ...

SpaceX has been successfully landing the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket for the last decade. Doing so allows SpaceX to ...

Technically, although these rock formations are tens of thousands of years old, they have no legitimate extraterrestrial ...