3D printers will make the tools, structures and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment. They ...

A privately funded crew will launch on a SpaceX rocket next week on a mission to orbit Earth's poles - something that has ...

"Athena continues to be in excellent health and is expected to send lunar orbit selfies over the next two days before a landing attempt on March 6." Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander has ...

Solar power satellite (SPS) advocates have been dreaming of using space resources to build massive constructions for decades.

The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight. The next new moon will occur on Saturday, March 29, at 6: ...

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander has made it to the moon. The Athena lander fired its engines for eight minutes and 12 seconds on Monday (March 3), slowing the spacecraft down and entering ...

Even small stars that orbit big stars would be moons! Clearly we’re running into trouble trying to hang the word moon on these objects. There’s also the problem that the arguments for what ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

A lunar lander built by Intuitive Machines is scheduled to descend to the moon’s surface today, potentially marking the ...