The second attempt by Intuitive Machines to land on the moon and the eighth test of the SpaceX Starship, proved an old adage: ...

The private Athena lunar lander is on its way to the moon. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off shortly ... determination for orbiting and approaching spacecraft. The concept is similar to ...

A privately owned lunar lander touched down on the moon Thursday, but as the minutes dragged on, flight controllers could not confirm its condition or whether it was even upright near the south pole.

Neither company has approach becoming truly commercially viable. However, the closest thing to a rival for SpaceX started out humbly out of New Zealand, and has now become a US rocket satellite ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth ...

The mission, conducted under NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, carries sophisticated instruments designed to analyze the moon’s regolith for water ice and other vital ...

NASA probe launches aboard SpaceX rocket to search for the building blocks of life on Europa, Jupiter’s icy ocean moon. Oct. 14 ... Congress has a quick-approaching March 14 budget deadline ...

The success provides an “existence proof” that NASA’s approach ... down on the moon on Sunday. In the past few years, Firefly has successfully launched its small Alpha rocket a couple ...

Then the engine will start firing again for the final approach ... air to breathe and rocket fuel. “It’s going to be important to understand, on the surface of the moon and beneath the ...

Earlier this month Babin reiterated his support for the rocket program, saying, “There’s no other way we’re going to get back to the surface of the Moon before the Chinese without the SLS." ...

Image: The Athena lander approaching the surface of the moon on Thursday ... and even create rocket fuel." ...