SpaceX’s decision to focus on establishing a lunar city ahead of building a Mars colony represents a significant shift in Elon Musk’s space exploration ambitions ...

The Moon passes 4° south of Mars in Virgo at 11 A.M. EDT. The pair is briefly visible — along with Virgo’s brightest star, Spica — for a short time after sunset this evening. You’ll need to be fast, ...

Mars, a world now circled by two lumpy rocks, may once have hosted a colossal companion that dominated its sky. New work on the planet’s tides, topography and wobbly interior points to a “lost” ...

SpaceX and Blue Origin are shifting focus to moon missions, influenced by NASA's lunar priorities and geopolitical competition.

Elon Musk has revealed the Moon-first strategy with his first initiative to build a “self growing city on Moon”, aiming to achieve it in less than 10 years. The decision comes as ...

As the moon makes its monthly rounds in its orbit around the Earth, it frequently has encounters with bright stars and planets, with Saturn and Mars taking center stage in the nights ahead. In many ...

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out orbits in complex three-body systems, like those in cis-lunar space, which is ...