Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar surface. “One of them is wrong,” an expert said. By Becky Ferreira Becky ...

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Just over a year ago, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made it abundantly clear he was not interested in visiting the Moon. In January 2025, the height of his bromance with president Donald Trump, he tweeted that ...

Elon Musk said on Sunday that SpaceX has shifted its focus to building a “self‑growing city” on the moon, which could be achieved in less than 10 years. SpaceX still intends to start on Musk’s ...

China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular.

Are you ready for a bona fide moon shot? The upcoming Artemis II mission is one of the most exciting space excursions in recent memory. It'll be the first time humans have flown to the moon since ...

Elon Musk’s ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat to a rather nearer and more achievable goal – sending humans to live on the moon. In a statement on X on Sunday, the ...

An illustration of a SpaceX "BFR" spaceship, a precursor to Starship, at a notional future lunar base from a 2017 speech by Elon Musk Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — A little more than a year after ...

Elon Musk announced his company SpaceX is shifting its focus from colonizing Mars to building a city on the moon. Musk stated that establishing a human presence on the moon is more feasible in the ...

In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space. By Kate Conger and Ryan Mac Kate Conger ...

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NASA is poised to send astronauts around the moon and back for the first time in more than 50 years. The space agency's Artemis II mission will take the crew further than humans ‍have ever ventured in ...