The coming year's space highlights include a NASA mission that will send astronauts around the moon and a Blue Origin lunar ...

NASA’s plans to launch astronauts to the moon in early 2026. The Artemis II mission is expected to carry a crew around the ...

Whether Artemis ultimately fulfills its promise of sustained lunar exploration, or is reshaped by politics, budgets and ...

From astronauts looping around the moon to spacecraft reaching Mercury and asteroids near Earth, 2026 is shaping up to be a ...

As NASA looks to return to the moon’s surface, Colorado company Lunar Outpost is one of three companies currently competing ...

The 26-foot-tall (8-meter-tall) cargo lander is expected to embark on its first flight during the first quarter of 2026, ...

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

A partnership with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company will revive a previously canceled NASA mission to send the VIPER rover to the moon. Credit: NASA NASA just brought back from the dead a science ...

NASA reinstated the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission, awarding Blue Origin a contract to deliver the rover to the Moon's South Pole in late 2027. The $190 million ...

"It’s amazing to think that this thing I have been working on in various capacities for the last eight years is about to send ...

The VIPER moon mission scrapped by NASA last year could be going ahead after all thanks to Blue Origin, the space agency has announced. There was much dismay last July when increasing costs prompted ...

Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 lander will deliver NASA’s VIPER lunar rover to the moon under a CLPS task order awarded Sept. 19. Credit: Blue Origin PARIS — NASA has revived a robotic lunar rover ...