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 ...

SpaceX pitches NASA 'simplified' Starship moon landing plan amid progress concerns

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Thursday said it proposed to NASA a simplified plan to send humans to the moon using its Starship ...

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 ...

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.
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NASA Says There’s Ice on the Moon, but We’ve Been Digging in the Wrong Craters

For over a decade, the idea of lunar water ice has fueled mission designs and space agency roadmaps. The permanently shadowed ...