New NASA lunar contest could pit Elon Musk against Jeff Bezos, as US fears China will win race to moon

The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a ...

Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup moon plan — and the wild ideas companies are pitching

As NASA’s moon-landing plans with SpaceX hang in the balance, other bold ideas are quietly starting to take shape.

We took a test-drive of NASA's new moon rover candidates

A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride on ...
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Beaver Moon: The closest supermoon of 2025 brightens the skies this week

This month's Beaver Moon will be the largest and brightest of 2025, and it’s one of the closest supermoons we have seen in ...

Moon phase today: What the moon will look like on October 31

As of Friday, Oct. 31, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. There will be 69% of the moon lit up tonight, according to NASA's ...

NASA’s Moon Astronauts Aren’t Getting Paychecks as Artemis 2 Launch Rapidly Approaches

The longer the shutdown goes on, the more chaos will grow. Last month, NASA officials announced that Artemis 2 could launch ...