SpaceX, billionaire Elon Musk's commercial rocket company, says it's working on a "simplified" plan for its Starship to land ...

A new venture is preparing to test the limits of lunar exploration with an ambitious plan to mine the Moon for helium-3, a ...

One keynote speaker, Kavya Manyapu, said her first lunar exploration project was done through her Ph.D. at UND. Now, she is ...

The abundance, distribution, and origin of lunar surface water has recently drawn significant scientific interest, owing to ...

While helium-3 is exceedingly rare on Earth, it’s plentiful on the Moon. But getting it won’t be simple. The race to harvest ...

China said it's on track to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 as it prepared to send another team of astronauts to its ...

A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar ...

Excess heat is flowing from the north pole of Enceladus, hinting at a careful energy balance deep that may have kept the ...

A moon exploration simulation with robots was conducted in a Jingbo Lake volcanic lava cave in China. Research indicates that ...

A modest series of new robotic missions to the lunar surface for scientific investigations and technology demonstrations are just beginning with payloads delivered by several private companies through ...

A tremendous effort is underway at NASA to send humans to Mars and return astronauts to the moon, including the flight  of ...

Sometimes space exploration doesn't go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the ...