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 ...

As part of this move, Duffy asked NASA’s current lunar lander contractors, SpaceX and Blue Origin, for more nimble plans. Neither has specified those plans publicly, but a recent update from SpaceX ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has completed the service module for NASA's Orion spaceship, which is meant to take the nearly cancelled Artemis 4 mission to the moon. The module, which is supposed to ...

Where will future Artemis astronauts land on the lunar south pole? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address | Space ...

Aschbacher named experienced German astronauts Matthias Maurer and Alexander Gerst as candidates for this Moon trip, ...

MISSOURI, USA — Ahead of the brightest and closest moon sighting of 2025 on Wednesday morning, the moon gave St. Louis residents a different kind of show Tuesday night. Multiple people throughout the ...

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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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) And two, importantly for Blue Origin, New Glenn’s first stage booster successfully ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University (THE CONVERSATION) Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket ...