The Orion crew module gets stacked onto the Space Launch System in preparation for the upcoming Artemis 2 mission in early 2026. NASA has reached one of its key steps on the road to returning humans ...

NASA may have no choice but to postpone the launch of its next mission to land astronauts on the moon by more than a year. Growing pains for SpaceX's massive Starship rocket over the past year have ...

SpaceX has fallen behind in developing a crewed lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, prompting the agency to reopen the contract to other providers. The added pressure has pushed SpaceX to ...

Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...

With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the ...

Before me is an expansive, arid landscape—a realm of valleys, chasms, and crevasses, of steep cliffs and dusty soil, framed by distant mountains. It might as well be on the moon itself, save for the ...

Dace Melbārde, Latvia’s minister for education and science, speaking at the Big Data from Space conference in September. Credit: Latvian Ministry of Education and Science Updated Nov. 3 to reflect ...

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WASHINGTON — SpaceX says it is developing a “simplified” lunar landing mission architecture while defending the progress it has made on its Starship lander for Artemis. In an Oct. 30 statement, the ...

Former Real World cast member and current Transportation Secretary / acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy recently said SpaceX was “behind” on its contract for Artemis III and proposed reopening it.