The question “are we alone” remains unanswered, but humanity may get a hint of it in the coming years as technologies are ...

This week, leaders from around the globe are gathering in Colorado Springs for the annual Space Symposium with a renewed focus on moon missions following the return of the Artemis II astronauts. The ...

What NASA’s InSight lander discovered on Mars NASA’s InSight mission was designed to study what lies beneath the surface of Mars, and it led to several first-time discoveries. From detecting ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: There was just one problem: The orbiter would never reach Mars. Superficially, everything seemed to be going according to plan. Lockheed Martin was ...

Lockheed Martin produced 620 PAC-3 MSE missiles in 2024, but it will expand capacity and increase production to approximately 2,000 per year under a new Pentagon contract. The Pentagon announced the ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...

When the Perseverance rover arrived on Mars nearly five years ago, NASA officials thought the next American lander to take aim on the red planet would be taking shape by now. At the time, the leaders ...

Though SpaceX was awarded the lunar lander contract in 2021, NASA recently indicated its intention to consider other options from Blue Origin and Lockheed Martin. Under its Artemis campaign, NASA is ...

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, ...

Social media posts are not rocket fuel, but if they were, Elon Musk would be on the moon today. Over the summer, Musk famously got into an online feud with President Donald Trump about everything from ...

SpaceX Starship lifts off from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, for its sixth flight test on Nov. 19, 2024. Credit - AFP—Getty Social media posts are not rocket fuel, but if they were, Elon Musk would ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Starship, the approximately 400-foot megarocket that ...