When NASA’s Artemis II mission embarks on a 10-day journey around the moon, the crew may glimpse features on the lunar surface that no other human has seen with the naked eye. As the astronauts fly by ...

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The contest between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is only going to get more heated now that the two are directly competing for the moon. After years of charting a path to Mars, Musk surprisingly announced ...

After 25 years of obsessing over Mars, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has shifted focus from invading the Red Planet to invading the moon. He claims he will build a self-sustainable lunar metropolis ...

Just over a year ago, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made it abundantly clear he was not interested in visiting the Moon. In January 2025, the height of his bromance with president Donald Trump, he tweeted that ...

Elon Musk revealed that his rocket-launch firm SpaceX is now focused on building a “self-growing city” of humans on the moon – backing away from his plans to launch a civilization on Mars. The world’s ...

An illustration of a SpaceX "BFR" spaceship, a precursor to Starship, at a notional future lunar base from a 2017 speech by Elon Musk Credit: SpaceX WASHINGTON — A little more than a year after ...

More than half a century after astronauts last left the lunar surface, NASA is preparing to send a crew of four back to the moon on a fly-by mission that will sling them around the far side. The ...

The February full moon, known as the Snow Moon, will rise over Mississippi this weekend. The state is still reeling from a massive winter storm that snapped the power grid in the northern parts of the ...

Tonight's waxing gibbous moon phase will be 92% illuminated, appearing bright and nearly full as the special February 2026 snow moon is set to rise in Cancer this weekend next to a brilliant Regulus ...

On the night of Feb. 2, skywatchers in eastern North America can see the moon occult Regulus — a rare event visible to the naked eye. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...