A new record approaches: By September's end, 83 orbital rockets lifted off from Florida's Space Coast thus far this year. For perspective's sake, that sum has already blown past the former annual record of 72 launches in 2023. Looking ahead, will 2024's ...

Members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 landed off the coast of California early Thursday morning, prematurely ending their stay on the International Space Station after one person experienced a medical issue. The person, who NASA did not identify, was doing fine ...

In multiple television appearances this week, Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy confirmed that he would be re-opening the contract to build a crewed Moon lander for the Artemis missions. That's a blow for SpaceX, which ...

The United States set out to return astronauts to the Moon on its own terms, with NASA’s Artemis program framed as a careful, sustainable sequel to Apollo. Instead, a tightening schedule, technical snags and rising competition have turned the next crewed flight into a race to secure lunar orbit before rivals do.

The space race is on — but this time it will be between American rocket companies. Sean Duffy, the acting NASA administrator, said in a Monday interview on "Fox & Friends" that Elon Musk's SpaceX is "behind schedule" on the Artemis III project, the ...