A weekly rundown of the most important developments in space; covering commercial activity, national security, geopolitics, and exploration—breaking down what happened, why it matters, and what’s coming next.

With an Indian spacecraft becoming the first to land on the lunar South Pole, Intuitive Machines President and CEO Steve Altemus is pressing his team to make the first ever commercial landing there in November, in a space race that is clearly h...

Russia's first lunar lander in 47 years has spun out of control and crashed into the moon, highlighting not only Roscomos’ mounting problems, but also just how hard it is to land on the moon ... especially on the lunar south pole.

A conversation with Dr. Nadia Maarouf, a clinical scientist working at the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert, about new vaccines that could help ward off space-induced heart problems in astronauts, as well as those of humans back ...

A conversation with Michelle Munk, NASA’s Acting Chief Architect for the Space Technology Mission Directorate, on everything from rovers and extraterrestial microbiology to building a sustainable human presence on the Red Planet.