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Intuitive Machines embarks on second moon landing mission with Athena lander
Intuitive Machines Athena lander launches on SpaceX rocket Instruments onboard to study moon's surface material DENVER, ...
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SpaceX Starship Explodes: Disruption, Debris, and Determination
Recent science news highlights the explosion of SpaceX's Starship during a test flight, disrupting 240 flights. Additionally, ...
Opinion: Missed shots at the moon are still scores for commercial space companies
The original assumption was that commercial lunar landings would be, to use a basketball term, “shots on goal” with some of ...
Two moon missions touched down on the lunar surface. How they unfolded was a stark contrast
This week, follow the journeys of two lunar landers, meet “woolly mice,” see the oldest known bone tools, and more.
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Failure is an option. Here's why some new space ventures go sideways
Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures.
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IM-2 lands on the Moon but its status is uncertain
After a shaky Moon landing last year, Intuitive Machines is working to determine if this mission will meet a similar fate.
Elon Musk's Starship blew up again — and our prospects of mining the moon hang in the balance
Space companies need Starship's super-heavy heft to fly human habitats and mining equipment to the moon. The rocket just ...
Who will rule the Moon? Lunar showdown set between US, China, Russia, India, Japan, EU and others
“Y’all stuck the landing, we’re on the Moon,” an engineer at Firefly’s mission control in Austin, Texas, exclaimed, as cheers erupted among the team. CEO Jason Kim later confirmed the lander was ...