The European Space Agency on Thursday put €862mn behind its goal to be a major player in lunar exploration, awarding a contract to Thales Alenia Space to build its first cargo vehicle for the Moon.

The Moon and asteroids are at the top of the mission list for a number of agencies, while others will focus on exploration to ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

Space mining company AstroForge has revealed the destination of its next asteroid prospecting mission and has signed a launch contract with Stoke Space.

Another important aspect of lunar lander systems is the design of landing ... a novel legged deployable landing mechanism was proposed for reusable launch vehicles. This mechanism utilizes a ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

Musk emphasized the iterative nature of development, viewing such tests as essential for progress toward reusable spacecraft ... that will launch the moon lander for NASA's Artemis 3 mission ...

capture the lunar tourism market with reusable rockets and cheap flights ... where the capsule will rendezvous with a SpaceX or Blue Origin lander to transport its human explorers to the surreal ...

What happened to China's reusable rocket testbed? A Chinese state-owned company performed a rocket flight on January 18 (US ...

The uncrewed New Glenn rocket took off at 2:03 a.m. EST from Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Blue Origin said.

SpaceX envisions the spacecraft, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, as being a fully reusable transportation ... A commercial lunar lander will soon be heading to the moon with ...

The partially reusable vehicle is designed with foldable ... Blue Ghost won’t be journeying to the Moon on its own, as another lunar lander will be coming along for the ride.