After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

Lunar Trailblazer is part of a growing list of probes and landers heading toward the moon to search for water ice.

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk announced this week that SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by Musk, will be ...

SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket has been "lost" just minutes into its seventh test flight. The 400ft rocket - the biggest and most powerful in the world - soared from Boca Chica, south Texas, on ...

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly ...

While SpaceX lost the upper stage of its new Starship in a flight test, the futuristic spacecraft presages a spaceflight revolution, says a leading U.S. space scholar.

To get it in your inbox, sign up for free ... a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this week, each with its own trek and purpose as they head for the silvery orb. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost ...

SpaceX mission control lost contact with the newly upgraded Starship, carrying its first test payload of mock satellites but no crew, eight minutes after liftoff from its South Texas rocket ...

SpaceX launched a new Starship rocket on Thursday, this time with an upgraded spacecraft and 10 mock satellites to practice a cargo delivery in space. But things didn't go as planned. Though the ...

Bezos’ Blue Origin and Musk’s SpaceX have competed in recent years for governmental contracts and funding to develop a lunar lander for Artemis V, a NASA mission that will return astronauts to ...

SpaceX said Thursday that its Starship space vehicle broke up during a flight meant to test the megarocket's capabilities. The rocket system's upper stage appears to have disintegrated somewhere ...

For this mission, SpaceX had made some changes. Ahead of the launch, the objectives and features for this ship were described as: Starship is being planned for use as a human lander for NASA's ...