A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.

"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even ...

Within the span of a few days, another SpaceX Starship broke up on re-entry, and two other space companies faced failures.

A sideways and off-target landing has brought Intuitive Machines’ lunar mission to an early end — the second such mishap for ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site is closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

The Athena lander, built by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines, descended to the lunar surface but the orientation of the lander is currently unknown.

This week, a tale of two lunar landers demonstrates why scientists and engineers always expect the unexpected in the saga of ...

California-based space company AstroForge launched the first-ever mining mission to an asteroid. The mission is in serious ...

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, which aims to map the Moon's water cycle, and AstroForge's Odin, which will analyze an asteroid's potential metal content, have both failed to transmit consistent data to ...

But it looks like the mission has failed. AstroForge has lost contact with Odin. "Right now, Odin is still out there, and we're still trying to talk to it," writes AstroForge CEO Matt Gialich in a ...

A private space mission designed to push the boundaries of deep space exploration has encountered major technical failures ...