dock and autonomously refuel the moon-bound ship so it can blast out of Earth orbit and head for deep space. Astronauts launched in an Orion capsule atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket then ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

which licenses commercial rocket launches. While SpaceX said initial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship, Musk said on X that next month's eighth Starship flight is ...

St. Charles native Benjamin Tackett could soon join an exclusive group of space explorers — if his team can successfully ...

Boeing warned on Saturday of layoffs in its Space Launch System moon rocket program, saying it expects to have about 400 ...

hitching a ride as a secondary payload on a rocket launch that was going roughly in the right direction to get its Resilience lander to the moon. That turned out to be Blue Ghost’s trip.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set for takeoff early Wednesday will launch not one, but two spacecraft on separate missions to the moon. The launch, scheduled for 1:11 a.m. Eastern time at Kennedy Space ...

However, the rocket’s first stage exploded on the way back down to Earth as Blue Origin attempted to land that section on a drone ship at sea ... is designing for the moon.

It was the first proper attempt at this rocket booster ... As for the ship section (which eventually, Musk and his engineers hope will take a crew to the Moon, Mars, and potentially beyond ...

Two lunar landers built by private companies in the US and Japan have left Earth aboard a SpaceX rocket as part of a rideshare to the Moon. The Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in ...