Around 7:25 a.m. ET on March 4, a discarded rocket stage that’s been drifting through deep space since at least 2015 collided with the moon. The rogue rocket was completely obliterated ...

As the landers touch down and lift off from the moon, rocket exhaust plumes will affect the top layer of lunar "soil," called regolith, on the moon. When the lander's engines ignite to decelerate ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is being urged to axe an over-budget, multi-billion dollar moon rocket, sources familiar with the discussions said, setting up a titanic ...

tall—and about 15% more powerful than the Saturn V rocket that took the Apollo astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and ’70s. It is also expensive, costing an estimated $4.1 billion per launch.

Not Block 2. All of it. There are other ways to get Orion to the Moon. If SLS is canceled, there isn't a straightforward replacement. SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket has a smaller payload and ...

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A SpaceX rocket carrying a lunar lander from Intuitive Machines blasted off Thursday morning from Florida in the latest attempt to put an American spacecraft on the moon since the last crewed ...

It is scheduled to enter the moon’s orbit in three to four months and land early next year. The rocket is carrying two space missions: a new X-ray telescope to help scientists better understand ...

A Japanese rocket bound for the moon took off early Thursday, offering relief to a battered national space program following a string of weather delays, major setbacks and high-profile failures.

The massive rocket is designed to return humans to the Moon, but could end up jeopardizing the space agency’s lunar program as funds run low. The office of NASA’s inspector general released ...

In a jaw-dropping spectacle, the 322-foot-tall Artemis moon rocket, the most powerful ever built for NASA, finally blasted off Wednesday with an eruption of white-hot fire and an earth-shaking ...

Five decades after the final flight of NASA's legendary Saturn 5 moon rocket, the U.S. space agency is poised to launch its most powerful rocket for a critical, long-overdue test flight ...