KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Getting cheers from a crowd battling the chilly winds, SpaceX successfully launched a pair of lunar landers from companies Firefly Aerospace and ispace early Wednesday morning.

The company shared updates on its official website on Thursday, sharing that the development of the mission was moving at "a historically rapid pace" before touting the Starship's ability to be ...

China’s Mengzhou spacecraft crew module launches away from the pad during a successful pad abort test at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2025. Credit: CMSEO HELSINKI — China aims to ...

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SpaceX is continuing with final preparations for the 10th full-scale test flight of the company’s enormous Starship rocket after receiving launch approval Friday from the Federal Aviation ...

China has successfully completed a static fire test of the first stage of the rocket that will take Chinese taikonauts to the Moon in the years to come. The test occurred at the LC-301 launch pad at ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft was intended to orbit the moon to map the concentrations and form of water. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — NASA has formally ended a lunar orbiter smallsat ...

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A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure ...