And while Blue Origin and SpaceX vie with each other to reach the Moon, they will also be competing, in a sense, with NASA and its traditionally designed and built, and extremely costly ...

Earth's distant rocky companion was likely a fragment of the moon blasted into space thousands of years ago, according to a new study that deepens our understanding of the types of space rocks ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! — SpaceX launches 2 private lunar landers to the moon (video, photos) — Here's what NASA is sending to ...

There are more ways for people to travel to space than ever before, and the next few decades are likely to see the US and China sending humans to the Moon again. Both countries aim to set up long ...

More of a standing on the space porch and gawking at Earth, but it still counts. Meanwhile, on the Moon, some firsts were being clocked up in 2024. In January, the US commercial Peregrine mission ...

After years of delays, NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon commenced in a big way more ... Lockheed Martin, MDA Space, Moonprint, Pratt Miller Defense, Sierra Space and Special Aerospace Services.

In 2024, space exploration dazzled the world. NASA’s Europa Clipper began its journey to study Jupiter’s moon Europa. SpaceX’s Starship achieved its first successful landing, a critical ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

of cargo to the surface of the Moon. The cargo manifest of the mission includes no less than ten instruments and science experiments belonging to American space agency NASA. One of the ten is ...

By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...

The September 1959 impact of Luna 2 on northeastern Mare Imbrium was a stunning achievement, reaching the Moon less than two years after the launch of Sputnik 1 ushered in the Space Age.