The European Space Agency on Thursday put €862mn behind its goal to be a major player in lunar exploration, awarding a contract to Thales Alenia Space to build its first cargo vehicle for the Moon.

Before Neil Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind," NASA staged a series of missions that paved the way for his team's ...

Astronauts aboard Artemis II will manually pilot the Orion spacecraft during its flight around the Moon. While the spacecraft ...

SpaceX on Wednesday night launched a Spanish communications satellite from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and retired ...

The Space Coast set a new record in 2024 with 93 launches from all providers, building off the 72 orbital missions flown in 2023. With SpaceX’s continued pace, more launches from United Launch ...

On NASA's Artemis II test flight, the first crewed mission under the agency's Artemis campaign, astronauts will take the ...

The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking ...

Astronauts on board China's "heavenly palace" space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and ...

The moon has come into view for Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost spacecraft, which is scheduled to land on Earth's nearest ...

HOUSTON, Jan. 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Intuitive Machines, Inc. (Nasdaq: LUNR, LUNRW) (“Intuitive Machines” or the “Company”), a space exploration, infrastructure, and services company, announced ...

NASA has updated its list of potential landing sites for the next human visit to the moon, which is planned for 2026. The Artemis III mission will see the first crewed lunar landing since the Apollo ...

The Moon and asteroids are at the top of the mission list for a number of agencies, while others will focus on exploration to ...