The European Space Agency on Thursday put €862mn behind its goal to be a major player in lunar exploration, awarding a contract to Thales Alenia Space to build its first cargo vehicle for the Moon.

The Moon and asteroids are at the top of the mission list for a number of agencies, while others will focus on exploration to ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...

Space mining company AstroForge has revealed the destination of its next asteroid prospecting mission and has signed a launch contract with Stoke Space.

Another important aspect of lunar lander systems is the design of landing ... a novel legged deployable landing mechanism was proposed for reusable launch vehicles. This mechanism utilizes a ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

What happened to China's reusable rocket testbed? A Chinese state-owned company performed a rocket flight on January 18 (US ...

The world is entering a new era of space exploration where both robots and humans will explore the Moon and Mars. Driven by ...

Astronauts on board China's "heavenly palace" space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and ...

One of the key questions about Blue Origin is whether it will push toward full reusability with New Glenn. In 2021, Ars first ...

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After the two-stage New Glenn rocket lifts off, the reusable first stage will descend ... to launch Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander for NASA atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 1:11 a.m ...