[Photo/CNSA/Handout via Xinhua] China is making steady progress in its manned lunar exploration ... a Mengzhou manned spacecraft to lunar orbit. After reaching their preset orbital positions ...

Fram2 is set to launch as early as March 31, sending four first-time astronauts into an orbit never before visited by humans.

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

SpaceX made multiple changes in the wake of a January Starship failure, only to suffer a second straight vehicle breakup Thursday.

Trump aims to send a crew to Mars by the end of his term, which Musk calls 'doable.' Astronauts question the time frame but said a flight would soon be possible ...

Live updates from Monday afternoon's SpaceX NROL-69 mission that launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

This Starliner previously flew on Boeing’s Orbital ... Also flying is the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx ...

The condition of the spacecraft prevented it from performing the trajectory ... Lunar Trailblazer is the latest setback for a NASA effort called Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration ...

Ground controllers for the NASA/Caltech-led mission, called Lunar Trailblazer ... spacecraft's woes have kept it from performing vital post-launch trajectory correction maneuvers, or TCMs ...

Assuming an on-time launch, Fram2 will become the 67th orbital ... exploration experience in Earth’s polar regions and bring different skills and expertise to achieve Fram2’s mission objectives.

It would be the first time humans have flown on a polar orbital ... flying is the Lunar Trailblazer, a mission selected under NASA’s Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration (SIMPLEx ...