The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down ...

A SpaceX spacecraft carrying four astronauts is on a pioneering journey circling Earth over its poles after launching Monday ...

Plenty more launches are to come, including another test of SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket, which exploded while in flight ...

Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover called MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform), which was built by the ...

SpaceX's Starship hasn't totally stuck the landing yet, and the space industry is watching closely. That's because Starship is key to opening the moon for business. Companies need the rocket's ...

A unique mission called Fram2, paid for and led by a cryptocurrency billionaire who is flying with three guests, lifted off, carrying the crew into an orbit around the North and South poles. Follow ...

NASA websites have dropped references to landing the first woman on the moon as part of the goals for its Artemis program.

Under SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's vision, humans could then land on the Red Planet in 2029, though he admitted 2031 is "more ...

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

The billionaire is in position to speed up plans for a voyage to the planet, with a potentially huge impact on SpaceX.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump have announced ambitious plans to send a mission to Mars in 2026 and 2028. It’s not going to ...

Mr. Irving is an investigative journalist who has covered aviation and aerospace for more than 30 years.