IM-2 is flying via NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which puts agency science and technology instruments on private moon landers. The goal is to gather a wealth of ...

NASA’s upcoming SPHEREx mission is on a quest to track down cosmic reservoirs of frozen water and life-essential molecules in ...

The commercially and privately constructed Athena spacecraft is returning data to NASA scientists on Earth, they announced ...

Intuitive Machines, a Houston company aiming to repeat a 2024 landing, said its spacecraft, Athena, has power and is ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...

The rocket’s chief passenger is SPHEREx, a space telescope that will take images of the entire sky ... cosmic time and to chart where frozen water and other ingredients essential for life ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ... which is thought to harbor large stores of water ice, Intuitive Machines said. "This southern pole region is lit by harsh sun ...

Intuitive Machines shared the photos within about 13 hours of the spacecraft launching to orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at ... of the different forms of water on Earth's only natural ...

The rocket was seen spinning before SpaceX lost ... toxic and not expected to have significant impact on marine life or water quality. SpaceX communications manager Dan Hout said during the ...

The lunar lander built by aerospace company Intuitive Machines launched Wednesday on an eight-day journey for its water-hunting mission on the moon.

Both were launched as part of a rideshare mission on a SpaceX rocket. The scientists will use data points and high-quality images to get a sense of how water is stored on the planet, with hopes of ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from ... km and collect high-resolution images of targeted areas to determine the form, distribution and abundance of water and to better understand the ...