US President Donald Trump wants to tap the private sector to pave the way for human missions to Mars in a proposal that ...

Rockets are hard.” Elon Musk’s much-used maxim rang with fresh solemnity this week as the world’s largest and most powerful ...

Engineers floated the idea of using the Mark 1 (MK1) as a mass simulator, if needed, for the first launch of Blue Origin’s ...

The consecutive failures may have decreased the likelihood SpaceX can meet NASA’s goal of landing on the moon in 2027, ...

On May 27, 2025, SpaceX conducted its ninth Starship test flight from Starbase, Texas. While the mission concluded with both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage being lost, the flight ...

Despite a fiery end, SpaceX’s latest Starship test flight advanced hardware reuse and data goals, pushing the giant rocket ...

Safely reaching the surface of Earth's satellite is hard. 2025 has brought both successes and shortfalls for companies and ...

Nearly a year after announcing that three companies would compete for the chance to build the Human Landing System, NASA’s next vehicle to land humans on the Moon, NASA announced Friday that ...

Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the ...

To better understand the physics behind the interaction of exhaust from the commercial human landing systems and the moon's surface, engineers and scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center ...

An illustration of Starship Human Landing System on the surface of the Moon. SpaceX More than 55 years after the Apollo Moon landing, NASA is returning astronauts to the Moon, but it’s going to ...

Both SpaceX and Blue Origin were awarded contracts for NASA's Human Landing System, and have been in the process of designing their respective vehicles for returning astronauts to the surface of ...