After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, ...

Why being first to return to the moon matters.

These are exciting times in space exploration ... The U.S. landed men on the moon in 1969 as part of its multi-faceted Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union. While this could all seem an ...

Decades after the U.S. began and won a space race with the Soviet Union ... Free still believes it's a realistic goal to get astronauts back on the moon by the end of 2026. His optimism is ...

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.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost — named after a species of U.S. Southeastern fireflies — should reach the moon first. The 6-foot-6-inches-tall (2-meter-tall) lander will attempt a touchdown in early March at ...

The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space ... get there, targeting a touchdown in late May or early June at Mare Frigoris, even farther north on the moon ...