What: NASA’s Artemis II mission will send astronauts on a lunar flyby to test systems critical for future Moon missions and eventual human exploration of Mars. Gues

NASA’s leadership is shaking things up, announcing a series of major changes aimed at keeping the agency on track for establishing a human presence on the Moon while getting rid of dead weight. During a full-day event on Tuesday,

Through 2030, governments and private entities have planned more than 400 missions in the next two decades to fly past or circle the moon or to land crewed or uncrewed spacecraft there, according to a count by the European Space Agency.

The next U.S. trip to the moon isn't about planting a flag. It's about learning how to live and work there. NASA has just reset its Artemis program, marking a clear strategic shift: Space exploration is moving away from a race to achieve milestones and toward a system built on repeated operations,

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) fulfills a vital role in national security: employing the sort of people who would, if they got bored, take over the world. It takes a specific kind of person to run the persnickety gravitational ...

Elon Musk is putting his dreams of colonizing Mars on hold. Instead, the world's richest man said SpaceX, his commercial rocket company, will turn its attention a little closer to home: the moon. The news represents a significant shift for Musk, who ...

From Mars, Earth transits the Sun four times in a 284-year cycle. The transits occur in either May or November at intervals of 100.5, 79, 25.5, and 79 years. During these events, Earth and the Moon would be seen as small black dots moving across the Sun ...

NASA plans to return humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The goal is to land astronauts back on the lunar surface, with a longer-term vision of establishing a permanent base on the moon that can be used as a stepping-stone for future crewed missions to Mars and beyond.