The White House aims to attract at least $50 billion in new private investment into US space markets by 2028. While the order omits details on how to reach this figure, it instructs federal agencies ...

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Scientists have discovered that moonquakes, not meteoroids, are responsible for shifting terrain near the Apollo 17 landing site. Their analysis points to a still-active fault that has been generating ...

The Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lunar lander is big, beautiful, and preparing to launch within the next four months. Can Blue Origin actually pull this off? Reading time 3 minutes Riding the high of its ...

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SpaceX has shown off intriguing renders of the interior of the Human Landing Systems (HLS) variant of its enormous Starship spacecraft — and we can’t shake the feeling that it’s a surprisingly poor ...

Nottingham Trent University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half ...

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy revealed that the agency is reopening the contract for the first U.S. crewed lunar landing since the 1970s, inviting proposals from companies beyond SpaceX’s ...

Sci-fi geeks have long worshipped an obscure TV show about a futuristic Moonbase Alpha and its spacecraft fleet of Eagles. Now, about a half-century in, those “Space: 1999” superfans are about to get ...

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Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell died six weeks before the movie about his rescue mission is set for a 30th anniversary rerelease in IMAX. Lovell, the 97-year-old Gemini XII and Apollo astronaut who died ...