SpaceX’s delays forced NASA to reopen its moon lander contract. Rivals are circling, Artemis is wobbling, and China’s steady march to a 2030 landing now looks harder to beat. NASA just handed Elon ...

The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module. Module McGhee ...

S ocial media posts are not rocket fuel, but if they were, Elon Musk would be on the moon today. Over the summer, Musk famously got into an online feud with President Donald Trump about everything ...

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NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy revealed that the agency is reopening the contract for the first U.S. crewed lunar landing since the 1970s, inviting proposals from companies beyond SpaceX’s ...

Impulse Space’s lunar transportation system concept uses the company’s Helios tug (left) with a new lunar lander the company will develop. Credit: Impulse Space WASHINGTON — In-space transportation ...

This quiz will test your lunar savvy — from iconic craters and mysterious maria to the legendary Apollo landing sites. For centuries, the moon has captivated our imagination, serving as a celestial ...

The moon is about to become the first extraterrestrial mining frontier, and most investors may be backing the wrong players. While venture capital pours into space startups promising to revolutionize ...

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has taken the next logical step in making a Black Hawk helicopter autonomous by not only installing the gear needed for self-flying, but by yanking out the entire ...

NASA acting Administrator Sean Duffy made two television appearances on Monday morning in which he shook up the space agency’s plans to return humans to the Moon. Speaking on Fox News, where the ...

If you built a car in, say, Germany, for use in Canada, you could assume that the roads will be more or less the same. Gravity will work the same. While the weather might not be exactly the same, it ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A plane carrying passengers from Omaha, Nebraska, to Los Angeles made an emergency landing minutes into the flight “out of an abundance of caution” after pilots mistakenly thought ...