The agreement with Astrolab marks SpaceX's first commercial contract for transporting cargo to the Moon with its upcoming megarocket.
The space agency's proposed longterm strategy for exploring the Red Planet involves lower-cost missions and paving the way for humans to land on Mars.
The company's inability to secure new funding has placed the space venture in serious jeopardy.
NASA's picks will be the first four humans to fly past the Moon since the Apollo program.
China is reportedly finalizing a plan to use parachutes to better control falling side boosters, but it's a limited solution to a larger problem.
The space agency's Crawler Transporter 2 has officially broken the Guinness World Record for the heaviest self-powered vehicle.
Called Crescent Space Services, the new company is being set up to meet the anticipated demand of upcoming lunar missions.
A crewed Boeing CST-100 Starliner might finally blast off this summer, with NASA now targeting July 21 for the highly anticipated, much-delayed launch.
Isar Aerospace recently secured $165 million in funding to gear up for the inaugural launch of its Spectrum rocket.
It appears that UAE's Rashid 2 rover will not be joining China's Chang'e 7 mission to the Moon owing to a restrictive U.S. law that dates back to the 1970s.
The project, done in collaboration with NASA and Intuitive Machines, could lead to enhanced communications during upcoming crewed missions to the Moon and Mars.
Richard Branson's private space company was forced to halt its operations following a failed launch attempt earlier this year that triggered financial turmoil.
The returning OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to return samples from asteroid Bennu in September, but NASA is already running rehearsals to get it right.
Lunar Outpost will engrave a crypto wallet passcode on its MAPP Lunar Rover that’s supposed to land on the Moon's south pole this year.
Rocket Lab plans to charge $50 million for flights aboard its Neutron rocket, placing it in direct competition with SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
The private lander recently entered lunar orbit and is getting ready to land on the surface of the Moon.
Samples brought to Earth by the Chang’e-5 mission contain signs of water, according to a new study.
Six rockets have failed to reach orbit since December, illustrating the tremendous challenges inherent to spaceflight.
Jeff Bezos's company released the results of its months-long investigation into its failed mission and expects to fly its suborbital rockets again soon.
While the Mk-II Aurora will collect scientific data during upcoming tests, it's also a proof-of-concept for a later model that will launch satellites to orbit.
