By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The space race between U.S. billionaires is heating up, with Elon Musk's SpaceX planning to build a lunar base and Jeff Bezos pushing Blue Origin's ambitions as both companies aim to return humans to the moon ahead of a planned mission by China in 2030.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will take a hiatus from its New Shepard spaceflights in Texas to develop a moon lander for NASA that will launch in Florida.

Is there a full moon tonight? When and what to know about the new moon phase, Lunar New Year meaning, and next lunar eclipse - blood moon.

Discover when the Lunar New Year 2026 is. Learn about its date, history, traditions, why the Year of the Fire Horse matters, festive customs and key celebration dates.

From symbolic rice cakes to lucky dumplings, these festive dishes are believed to attract wealth, success, and good fortune as families welcome a prosperous start to the Year of the Horse in 2026.

Blue Origin plans to launch a lunar resource mapping spacecraft to help identify opportunities to exploit materials available on the Moon. The effort is part of what the space startup calls Project Oasis, which will range from identifying resources to ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an Earth quasi-satellite whose reported spectrum resembles lunar material and which is a target of China's Tianwen-2 sample-return mission.

Blue Origin, the private spaceflight company founded by Jeff Bezos, is suspending the short flights of its suborbital New Shepard spacecraft, which took paying customers to the edge of space and back. Since its first human launch in July 2021, New Shepard ...

Private space exploration company Blue Origin said its Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander arrived in Houston for testing. A lunar lander from the private space exploration company Blue Origin is in Houston for testing at the Johnson Space Center, the company ...

Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the CAS Aerospace Information Research Institute, and other institutions, have revised the decades-old lunar crater chronology model,

People are celebrating the Lunar New Year with prayers, fireworks and street festivals for the Year of the Horse.