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World’s most powerful rocket explained: How Starship will take humans to Moon and Mars

SpaceX’s Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket, completes final V2 test, prepares for Moon and Mars with a new, fully ...

Space exploration in the backyard, on a budget: How NASA simulates conditions in space without blasting off

Humanity's drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers' wheels ...

With SpaceX Behind Schedule, NASA Will Seek More Moon Lander Ideas

Blue Origin, owned by Jeff Bezos, and Lockheed Martin are among the contractors that may compete with Elon Musk’s company in ...
Space.com

How do you build a moon? The James Webb Space Telescope has just given us our best look

The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that forms a moon-forming disk of gas and dust around a newly formed planetary body. It is hoped the ...
Ars Technica

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—a space lawyer explains why

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing on the Moon is old news. The new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power. While it might feel like a ...

Duffy says NASA could move on from SpaceX for Artemis III moon landing. How likely is that?

NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy suggested SpaceX may not be taking NASA to the moon. Experts said it’s unlikely another ...

NASA has a wild plan to return astronauts to the moon. Here’s why experts are starting to worry

Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges on SpaceX’s Starship.