A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other experiments for NASA touched down on the moon Sunday, the latest in a string of companies looking to kickstart business on Earth's celestial ...

Cedar Park-based Firefly Aerospace was chosen to deliver NASA's MoonFall drones. Houston's Intuitive Machines was not chosen ...

The dust under a moonwalker’s boots looks harmless from a distance. Up close, it is anything but. Lunar regolith, the blanket ...

Only weeks have passed since NASA sent humans further in space than ever before. While the agency achieved something new, on ...

A mockup of a Texas moon buggy — with longhorns adorning the bumper — was unveiled Thursday at Space Center Houston. The Moon RACER, created by Houston-based Intuitive Machines and its partners, is ...

A Central Texas space company is on a victory lap. After successfully touching down on the Moon this past spring, a feat others have failed recently, Firefly Aerospace is again headed to the lunar ...

Seattle-based Interlune has won a grant of up to $4.84 million from the Texas Space Commission to open a center of excellence at NASA’s Johnson Space Center that would focus on simulated moon rocks ...

The future of Texas moon landers could be at a critical juncture. NASA is spending more than it planned on the lander missions. Only one has landed upright on the moon. And the Trump administration ...

An unexpected visitor next to the crescent moon caught the attention of Texas skywatchers early Friday morning, prompting a flurry of questions—and photos—online. In Austin, a Reddit user took to the ...

Texas is home to the most R1 research universities of any state in the country as a result of a moon shot that propelled the Lone Star State into the Tier 1 stratosphere in less than two decades. In ...