The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a century. But there's a developing twist: an emerging competition between ...

A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride on ...

Late-night rocket launch will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, just before we fall back. Space Coast residents might ...

SpaceX Sunday said it is stepping up its efforts to develop a simplified Human Landing System for NASA as it pursues a plan to return to the moon.

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

As NASA’s moon-landing plans with SpaceX hang in the balance, other bold ideas are quietly starting to take shape.

The second-ever liftoff of Blue Origin's powerful New Glenn rocket is approaching as the launch vehicle undergoes final ...

When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers ...

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity was tested on Earth in simulated Martian conditions to prove that flight was possible in the ...

NASA’s next Moonship has reached a significant milestone by arriving at the Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building in Florida. This marks the final processing stop before the spacecraft is ...

NASA's revolutionary new Dream Chaser spaceplane is finally ready to fly, but not in the way it was first intended. The Dream Chaser is on track for its first orbital flight in late 2026, but it won't ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory laid off 550 employees Tuesday, reducing the La Cañada Flintridge facility’s ...