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On Wednesday, the space companies owned by two of the richest people on Earth — Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin — submitted ideas to the space agency for a faster program to land ...

Experts warn that the Starship Human Landing System may be years behind schedule, but SpaceX says it has a new plan to save its Artemis 3 contract.

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

The hold-down firing of the first stage engines was the final major test of the New Glenn rocket before launch day. Blue ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin debuted their first test run of a low-volume supersonic jet that’s expected to allow air passengers to travel faster than the speed of sound.   The X-59 aircraft on ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is ...

SpaceX says it is developing a “simplified” lunar landing mission architecture while defending the progress it has made on ...

The upcoming mission will be the rocket's second flight, launching NASA's ESCAPADE satellites to Mars. While no official date ...

The compact, 100 foot (30 meter) plane launched from the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, about 60 miles ...

In the 1970s, NASA partnered with the U.S. Postal Service on an overlooked project that helped shape modern EV development.