Hundreds of NASA employees and contractors are working the three-day holiday weekend in an effort to attempt something that ...

NASA’s next crewed flight to the Moon is tantalizingly close, yet Artemis II is still on the ground while its giant rocket ...

On the other were two more figures in space suits, with the tiniest Stars and Stripes planted in the lunar soil. Cruz ...

Whether Artemis ultimately fulfills its promise of sustained lunar exploration, or is reshaped by politics, budgets and ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

An artist’s conception shows the Orion spacecraft’s main engine firing during a lunar flyby, surrounded by eight auxiliary engines built by L3Harris’ Aerojet Redmond facility. (NASA Illustration) ...

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are racing to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years. New NASA boss Jared Isaacman said the agency will pick whichever company finishes its lunar lander ...

The same historic facilities that some 50 years ago prepared NASA's twin Voyager probes for their ongoing interstellar odyssey are helping to ready a towering commercial spacecraft for a journey to ...

To win the superpower race to the Moon, the U.S. could launch a super-speed crusade to develop a lander that beats Chinese taikonauts to the lunar surface. Shown here is Lockheed's leading-edge Orion ...

Private companies are testing new power systems for longer rover missions and future human lunar habitats. By Mack DeGeurin Published Dec 11, 2025 1:08 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

The Blue Moon Mark 1 (MK1) lunar lander is big, beautiful, and preparing to launch within the next four months. Can Blue Origin actually pull this off? Reading time 3 minutes Riding the high of its ...