Among all the challenges of voyaging to and successfully landing on other worlds, the effective collection and study of soil and rock samples cannot be underestimated.

And a large integration hangar was packed with hardware: two lunar landers, two lunar rover mock-ups, a hopper, and other ...

The Tenacious, Europe's first-ever Moon rover, made by a company called ispace in Luxembourg, will lift off for the Moon on ...

Redwire Corporation , a leader in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, announced today its flight-proven camera technology will launch onboard Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander ...

The Space Coast could welcome a big player to the launch landscape tonight with the debut of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. The NG-1 mission is targeting a 1 a.m. Friday liftoff from Cape Canaveral ...

The agency is starting down two different paths toward the samples' return, but only one will bring the red rocks home.

SpaceX has confirmed Flight 7 will be no earlier than Monday, Jan. 13 from Boca Chica, Texas.) Coming soon to American launch pads: the competition of the heavy lifters as Jeff Bezos' New ...

In a special episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast to start 2025, we’ve brought together three science editors from The Conversation’s editions around the world to discuss what to look out for in ...

Artemis delays raise questions about NASA's 2027 moon landing goal. Can the US maintain its lead in space exploration?

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander will fly a 60-day mission to deliver a suite of NASA science equipment to the ...

As Mars approaches opposition this month, it will become a dazzling spectacle in the night sky. See it at its best now, or ...

Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked in a tight orbit with the dwarf planet. A new simulation suggests how it ended up there.