A NASA authorization bill the House Science Committee is scheduled to take up this week would require closer scrutiny of lunar lander and spacesuit work.

SpaceX’s lunar Starship was never designed to blaze back through Earth’s atmosphere in a shower of plasma. Instead, the company has quietly positioned its Human Landing System as a one‑way ferry that lives and dies in cislunar space,

Blue Origin’s next launch from the Space Coast could still be its uncrewed and newly named Blue Moon MK1 lander, but it will have to take a trip to Houston and back before it can get to the

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Odysseus lunar lander, nicknamed "Odie" or IM-1, has embarked on a historic journey to the lunar surface - aiming to make the first touchdown of a US-made spacecraft on the moon in five decades. The launch follows closely on the ...

NASA wants ideas of how to speed up the return of its astronauts to the surface of the moon. And now, it has some. On Wednesday, the space companies owned by two of the richest people on Earth — Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin ...

SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk's commercial spaceflight company, says it's working on a "simplified" plan for its Starship megarocket to land astronauts on the moon. The revelation, which was shared Oct. 30 in a lengthy blog post on SpaceX's website, came ...

NASA prepares to launch Artemis II mission in September, sending four astronauts around the Moon for the first crewed lunar mission since 1972.

The launch date had been up in the air after the rocket's booster stage suffered an explosion during testing in November.