President Donald Trump enshrined the U.S. goal to put humans back on the moon by 2028 and defend space from weapon threats in ...

As SpaceX’s Starship rocket thundered into the South Texas sky this week, a crowd of employees outside mission control began to chant, “U-S-A, U-S-A!” It was the second successful test flight after a ...

For the last month, NASA’s interim administrator, Sean Duffy, has been giving interviews and speeches around the world, offering a singular message: “We are going to beat the Chinese to the Moon.” ...

The White House plan to kill the cutting-edge Orion spacecraft, shown here, and the Space Launch System super-rocket could halt NASA's ability to land astronauts on the Moon in the late 2020s, even as ...

"The exploration of the moon is going to be a continuous activity." SYDNEY — Leaders of the world's major space agencies shared visions for space in the coming years at a major space congress in ...

The Artemis SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2022. NASA NASA is gearing up to send its first ...

The Orion spacecraft, which will fly four people around the Moon, arrived inside the cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida late Thursday night, ready to be ...

SpaceX has taken another major step toward realizing its interplanetary ambitions. On October 13, the company launched the 11th test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built. The ...

In a preview of their flight, the crew of Artemis II, three Americans and a Canadian, struck a tone that veered away from the political currents of the moment. From left, Jeremy Hansen, Christina Koch ...

Despite the Trump administration’s insistence that the U.S. must win a race back to the moon with China, NASA looks increasingly unlikely to succeed, experts say. Meanwhile China insists it isn’t in a ...

SpaceX's next mission to the moon, and the next launch of its triple-booster Falcon Heavy rocket, has slipped to no earlier than July 2026. Astrobotic's Griffin-1 lunar lander, carrying NASA and ...

It's been more than 50 years since astronauts last went to the moon, and yet few NASA missions stir the kind of excitement that the Apollo program once did. But now, NASA has new moon plans. The ...