A small uncrewed spacecraft is buzzing the moon, with under two weeks remaining before its bold attempt to land on the lunar ...

The aerospace company is bringing its booster back for a rare land recovery in Central Florida on Tuesday evening – with defeaning sonic booms set to rock multiple counties ...

Electric propulsion is a more efficient alternative to traditional chemical rockets, and it's being increasingly used on space missions, starting off with prototypes on NASA's Deep Space 1 and the ...

Chang’e 5, the third Chinese spacecraft to land on the moon and the first to take off from it again, is the latest in a series of increasingly ambitious missions for Beijing’s space program ...

The rocket soon broke apart, creating a light show across the sky. Debris from the spacecraft soon began washing ashore. “It made its way across the sky. Literally was rising from behind our ...

Credit: Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost, originally scheduled to lift off in late 2024 ... it will take four days for it to arrive at the moon. The spacecraft will spend 16 days in lunar orbit ...

but those on the outside cool off faster, slow down and move out of the beam, potentially being back-scattered and impacting the spacecraft. Now that scientists better understand the behavior of ...