Credit: NASA / Jordan Salkin and Quentin Schwinn NASA's preparing to put astronauts on its new moon-bound spacecraft. Every system is being rigorously tested. The space agency released footage of ...

Just before midnight Thursday, the spacecraft finally "phoned home," transmitting a beacon tone back to Earth, indicating it ...

A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International ... Ghost lander to the moon in mid-January with these 10 NASA payloads ...

Understanding how heat moves through the lunar regolith can help scientists understand how the Moon's interior formed.

Earth's nearest neighboring body in the solar system is its moon, yet to date, humans have physically explored just 5% of its ...

By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported this article from NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and covered the Artemis I moon launch in 2022. NASA on Thursday postponed a mission to send four ...

Through NASA's Artemis campaign, astronauts will land on the lunar surface and use a new generation of spacesuits and rovers ...

NASA's Artemis program will eventually return humans to the lunar surface, but that's just part of the effort to turn the Moon into a human outpost. The program will rely on myriad commercial ...

A problem with a space capsule heat shield has forced NASA to postpone two highly anticipated flights to the moon, including one that would land astronauts on the lunar surface. The heat shield is ...

NASA on Thursday announced another delay to its first crewed lunar mission since Apollo, with astronauts now set to fly around the moon in 2026 and land in 2027. The delay means the Artemis II ...

Critical to the Artemis moon program, SpaceX also is building a variant of its Starship rocket to carry astronauts back to the lunar surface in 2027. It will be NASA's first such landing since the ...