SpaceX defended Starship and said it is assessing a simplified moon mission architecture, with a propellant transfer test next year.

NASA's chief said recently he's reopening bids for the Artemis III contract that it awarded SpaceX in 2021. SpaceX has now responded.

Despite the ongoing government shutdown, NASA did manage to complete a major milestone in its effort to send astronauts back to the moon.

Former NASA officials warn that the U.S. looks poised to lose its self-declared race to beat China to the moon

For over a decade, the idea of lunar water ice has fueled mission designs and space agency roadmaps. The permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) at the Moon’s poles, so cold they haven’t seen sunlight for billions of years,

Interest in the moon has been high—just in the past two years there have been 12 attempts to send missions to the moon, nearly half of which private companies undertook. With so much activity, it's important to start thinking about coordination and safety.

Like Peregrine, Griffin is being developed under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program, which funds private missions to the moon to deliver payloads in support of the Artemis program — NASA push to return astronauts to the lunar surface.

U.S. Rep. Mike Haridopolos said a federal shutdown hasn’t impacted the timeline for major NASA missions to date. But he worries the longer workers go without pay, the more the U.S. could be slowed down in the modern space race.