Rocket Lab has been on a roll ... mark and would mean samples returned from Mars by 2031, according to the company. The plan would involve three dedicated launches from Earth: an Earth Return Orbiter ...

While Intuitive Machines' Athena lander quickly met its demise after awkwardly stumbling ... sending sparks and pieces of rubble flying. While it's far from the first mission to drill into the lunar ...

Intuitive Machines also planned to test a rocket-powered vehicle called ... Pittsburgh is planning to try to get to the moon flying a large lander known as Griffin that will carry a commercial ...

Space launch and satellite specialist Rocket Lab USA (RKLB) has impressively outperformed over the past year, appreciating by 365% while reminding investors that space commerce could yet be a ...

This is the upper stage that will head toward orbit, and ultimately could carry people to the moon or even Mars. In six tests before the seventh flight, SpaceX demonstrated that the rocket’s ...

As eyes turn to Firefly Aerospace's mission control for the company's first attempt at landing on the moon, some watching may notice small models of the Blue Ghost lander sitting among the consoles.

A great way to build excitement levels for all things space-related is with a model ... The rocket deploys its rear rotor blade, which allows it to safely return to Earth. This kit contains ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’ Athena lander and NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer satellite ... as they prepare for humanity’s return to the Moon and the journey to Mars. Moreover, NASA ...

Houston-based Intuitive Machines has successfully launched its second lunar lander, Athena, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The launch took place from Florida as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar ...

Beyond today’s lunar lander launch, SpaceX has planned the eighth test flight of its Starship rocket on February 28. The previous test in January ended in an unexpected "rapid unscheduled disassembly" ...

We're flying with a deployable rover, we're flying with a drone, (a) rocket-powered drone that hops, flies off the lander and hops along the surface and down into a permanently shadowed (crater).