Golden Spike orders lunar lander studies from the experts: Northrop Grumman

The science fiction writer H. G. Wells, in his book The First Men in The Moon (published in serialised form Read more

On its final voyage, the Virgin Galactic suborbital rocket SpaceShipTwo ‘Unity’ was launched on the Galactic 07 human rocket flight Read more

The first crewed test flight of Starliner finally lifted off from the ground following a series of stalled launch attempts. Read more

On a recent suborbital Blue Origin flight, six more people gained the credentials to call themselves astronauts (or, more accurately, Read more

The Chang’e 6 mission is under way. Its goal is to be the first to bring back a sample from Read more

The cost of NASA’s Mars Sample Return project has doubled from a projected US$5.3 billion to US$11 billion, prompting many Read more

Farah Ghouri and David Todd followed the launch, descent, landing and subsequent communications of the first private spacecraft lunar landing  Read more

The NASA/CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) field centre has laid off 530 people. The latest cuts, which affect 8 per Read more

While drones are commonplace on Earth, where amateur versions are often used as toys, their use on other planets is Read more