As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are racing to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years. New NASA boss Jared Isaacman said the agency will pick whichever company finishes its lunar lander ...

The Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lunar lander is big, beautiful, and preparing to launch within the next four months. Can Blue Origin actually pull this off? Reading time 3 minutes Riding the high of its ...

With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the ...

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, ...

Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk lashed out at Secretary of Transportation and acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy Tuesday night, sparking a new feud as the U.S. seeks to win the “second space race.” Duffy drew ...

For decades, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been a sort of trusted sidekick for the much larger NASA. In some respects, that continues to this day, as ESA is backing the Americans' push for the ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Starship, the approximately 400-foot megarocket that ...

Artemis III is currently scheduled to launch in mid 2027. Earlier this week, Transportation Secretary and NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy suggested that SpaceX may not be the first American ...

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy revealed that the agency is reopening the contract for the first U.S. crewed lunar landing since the 1970s, inviting proposals from companies beyond SpaceX’s ...

While the Space Launch System Rocket will take astronauts to the moon on Artemis III, it’s SpaceX’s Starship that was supposed to serve as the mission’s lunar lander. We are in a race against China so ...