Elon Musk announced that SpaceX's Starship rocket will head to Mars in March 2026. Onboard will be the humanoid robot Optimus ...

Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX's Starship rocket is set to depart for Mars in March 2026. The humanoid robot Optimus ...

After a day of uncertainty following a harrowing moon landing attempt, the company Intuitive Machines sealed the fate of its latest lunar probe Athena. The spacecraft, which attempted a historic ...

• A robotic lunar lander built by Texas-based company Firefly has successfully landed on the moon, touching down around 2:34 a.m. CT (3:34 a.m. ET). • The lander, called Blue Ghost, launched ...

Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander dropped out of lunar orbit and swooped to a rocket-powered touchdown ... the squat lander fired its main engine at 2:31 a.m. EST, kicking off a white ...

Recognizing that the company had to diversify to survive, Firefly executives began pursuing other business opportunities—spacecraft manufacturing, lunar missions, and a medium-class rocket—to ...

The lunar lander hitched a ride to orbit atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ... (164 feet) in the air before diving into a nearby crater that lives in permanent shadow. There, the robot will attempt ...

Blue Ghost will use its engines to slow down, until it’s directly over the site. Landing thrusters will fire to control its descent, slowing it to a steady 3 feet (1 meter) per second in the ...

Three other spacecraft shared the trip to orbit on Feb. 26 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. And at least two of those vehicles have joined the Intuitive Machines robot ... off the engine as if it ...

“Everything (has to) come together perfectly to go right, to fire the engine, to put us on our way to the moon,” he told the publication this week. Watch live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches ...