Space

NASA announced on Friday it has awarded a $2.9 billion contract to build the craft intended to transport U.S. astronauts to the lunar surface for the first time in decades to Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX.

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos posted a picture on Instagram standing next to his space company's New Shepard suborbital rocket booster after another successful flight test on Wednesday.

It’s easy to imagine a future where mankind travels to space as easily as to the supermarket, as seen in countless movies and TV shows, and private companies are already laying the groundwork for it – with hefty price tags but promising new technology.

NASA has announced that it will invest more than $45 million in 365 proposals from American small businesses as part of the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs.

Cathie Woods' ARK Investment is getting in on the space race, launching a Space ETF Tuesday that will focus on "leading, enabling, or benefitting from technologically enabled products and/or services that occur beyond the surface of the Earth."

SpaceX's SN11 rocket prototype crashed Tuesday while landing, causing debris to fall on the launch site in foggy conditions.

The House of Representatives Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said on Monday it is investigating a SpaceX commercial space launch that regulators determined violated U.S. safety requirements and its test license.

Researchers in Bordeaux are analyzing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid — along with 320 snippets of Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon grapevines — that returned to Earth in January after a sojourn aboard the International Space Station.

The first house on the moon, an ambitious space-saving alternative to life on crowded Earth, could cost an out-of-this-world $60 million, according to a new study.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk caused a buzz on social media Tuesday when he added his voice to the ongoing debate over whether aliens exist.

Spacewalking astronauts had to take extra safety precautions Saturday after possibly getting toxic ammonia on their suits from the International Space Station’s external cooling system.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched even more Starlink internet satellites into orbit early Thursday morning.

NASA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have teamed up to produce a new tool that will provide farmers, meteorologists and researchers alike with access to high-resolution data on soil moisture.

SpaceX got closer than ever to a successful landing of one of its Starship prototypes last week, and the next test could be the one where the company finally nails it.

Billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged the fiery death of SpaceX's SN10 Starship prototype on Friday.

The third time was mostly the charm for SpaceX’s latest flight test.

Eccentric Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is looking for eight civilian volunteers to blast off to the Moon with him on the first-ever private commercial space trip.

Orbital Assembly Corp., a California-based startup that wants to pioneer construction and infrastructure in outer space, has hit its $1 million fundraising goal and aims to open an operational luxury hotel in orbit in 2027.

The space tourism venture, founded by Richard Branson, told investors in an earnings call that its third and second test flight will be pushed until at least May.

NASA has finally shared video and audio of Mars after its historic descent onto the planet’s surface with the Perseverance rover on Thursday, Feb, 18.