Several private companies launching moon landers later this year from Florida will kick off a grand campaign to better understand our nearest neighbor, with big implications for when NASA returns humans to the moon in a few short years.

Several private companies launching moon landers later this year from Florida will kick off a grand campaign to better understand our nearest neighbor with big implications for when NASA returns humans to the moon in a few short years. Both Astrobotic and Intuitive Machine are months away from launching the first American missions to land on the moon since 1972. The companies were both selected under NASA’s commercial lunar payload services, or CLIPS, program.

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NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby.

SpaceX is planning to launch a Falcon 9 rocket for a second time Monday, which will bring a sonic boom to Florida’s Space Coast.

Scientists say a newly discovered green comet likely has broken apart and won’t be visible to the naked eye.

It could be a double showing of rocket launches on Florida’s Space Coast as SpaceX is looking to launch two missions on Monday.

During their mission, Pettit and his crewmates spent 220 days in space, orbiting the Earth 3,520 times and traveling a total of 93.3 million miles.

United Launch Alliance announced Friday that it was planning to launch the Atlas V rocket on Monday, April 28. The two-hour launch window is expected to open at 7 p.m.