NASA’s Artemis and Mars programs are being quietly built to outpace SpaceX’s boldest timelines. Using nuclear-powered ...

Blue Origin successfully launched—and partially landed—its New Glenn rocket on Thursday. The achievement marks a major step ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Starship, the approximately 400-foot megarocket that ...

Space travel should by rights make for rocket-fuelled television, but documentaries on the subject too often veer into soul-numbing technobabble. That sad fate is happily avoided by the absorbing Once ...

SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk's commercial rocket company, says it's working on a "simplified" plan for its Starship to land ...

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 ...

"The first 20 women or so ... couldn't even imagine the reality or the possibility of becoming an astronaut except as they ...

NASA is opening SpaceX’s $4-billion moon landing contract to competition, citing delays with the company’s Starship spacecraft. Acting Administrator Sean Duffy expressed concerns about falling behind ...

NASA is getting ready to ditch SpaceX for its first attempt to deliver astronauts to the Moon’s surface in over half a century. As Reuters reports, NASA’s interim administrator Sean Duffy indicated ...

As SpaceX’s Starship rocket thundered into the South Texas sky this week, a crowd of employees outside mission control began to chant, “U-S-A, U-S-A!” It was the second successful test flight after a ...

Acting Administrator Sean Duffy said the agency will open up the Artemis 3 contract to other spaceflight companies because SpaceX has fallen behind schedule. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes As ...