Godspeed, Artemis 2! As early as February, 4 astronauts will board NASA's Orion capsule atop the SLS rocket in Florida for 10 ...

The coming year's space highlights include a NASA mission that will send astronauts around the moon and a Blue Origin lunar ...

In theory, leaner NASA oversight, greater use of off‑the‑shelf hardware and narrower science goals can cut costs while ...

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

The 26-foot-tall (8-meter-tall) cargo lander is expected to embark on its first flight during the first quarter of 2026, ...

Artemis II was originally scheduled to launch between 2019 and 2021 but delays kept pushing it back. In September last year, ...

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.

Spaceflight planners are treating 2026 as a pivot year, with six headline missions that range from NASA’s push back to the ...

Sending anything to Mars is a much more difficult process than it seems. In the 1960s, the Soviet Union tried (and failed) in its first nine consecutive attempts, and the US was only able to succeed ...

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory would be terminated in the agency's fiscal year 2026 budget request. Credit: NASA/CXC & J. Vaughan WASHINGTON — House appropriators offered support, but no specific ...

The three missions launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket the morning of September 24. NASA A SpaceX launch early Wednesday morning sent a trio of spacecraft toward a destination almost one million ...

After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA's Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its roundabout journey to Mars. Launched on Nov. 13, 2025, ...