Interlune secured a $4.8 million grant from the Texas Space Commission to establish a Lunar Regolith Simulant Center of Excellence near NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The facility will support testing of lunar mission hardware, spanning l...

At a Senate hearing, Senator Ted Cruz warned NASA risks being leapfrogged by China in the lunar race, citing China's 2030 landing goal against NASA’s delayed Artemis timelines. Budget reductions, technical hurdles, and lagging Artemis missions cou...

NASA awarded Blue Origin a $190 million task order under CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) (CS‑7). The first step is design/accommodation and demonstrating how to off‑load the rover; the option to actually do the lunar delivery is pending s...

Blue Origin announced “Project Oasis” in partnership with Luxembourg to map and assess key lunar resources (water ice, He‑3, rare earths, radionuclides) via orbit and ground missions. The first phase, Oasis‑1, aims to generate high‑resolution comp...

NASA confirmed progress in integrating the Orion spacecraft with its launch stack, aiming for a no-later-than April 2026 crewed Artemis II mission. Efforts on Artemis III hardware are also underway. This maintains momentum (and deadline pressure) ...

NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy announced that the agency will re-open bidding for the Artemis III lunar-lander contract, which is currently held by SpaceX, citing schedule delays in the company’s human-landing-system (HLS) program. The decis...

Elon Musk said SpaceX will “lean in big on the Moon,” signaling a notable shift in tone from his long-held Mars-first narrative. While Musk has historically portrayed lunar activity as secondary and a "distraction" to Mars colonization, this marks...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed that the 70-meter DSS-14 antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Network site has been offline since Sept 16 after an over-rotation incident damaged its cabling and fire-suppression systems. A mishap board is...

An internal document obtained by analysts and reported by Politico Pro space newsletter outlines updated milestones for SpaceX’s Starship HLS lunar-lander program: a propellant-transfer demonstration is targeted for June 2026, an uncrewed lunar la...

NASA and Artemis II crew members conducted integrated launch countdown dress rehearsals on Dec 21, 2025 at the Kennedy Space Center, advancing preparations for the first crewed lunar flyby scheduled in early 2026, according to Spaceflight Now. The...