China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular.

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, was recently discovered lurking beneath Venus.

Two rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

Elon Musk has upended his own space narrative, elevating a “self-growing city” on the Moon to SpaceX’s top mission and ...

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...

Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar ...

A little more than a year after dismissing the moon as a “distraction,” Elon Musk says SpaceX will focus on lunar settlement ...

Blue Origin is abruptly reshaping its business around a single, high‑stakes goal: controlling key lanes in Earth orbit and on ...

A major study by an international team of researchers using data from the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft has revealed a lattice-like structure of crisscrossing reflected waves that flow downstream ...

SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the back burner to prioritize establishing a settlement ...

Musk's change of heart regarding lunar versus Martian colonization stems from practical considerations. He stated, "The overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is ...

Voyager Technologies and Max Space, a company working on expandable habitats, plan to work together to use that technology for lunar exploration.