The Orion capsule's heat shield had issues during the uncrewed Artemis 1 moon mission in late 2022. Here are the steps NASA ...

In the coming weeks, Artemis II will send humans around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Could it be a ...

What: Artemis II will carry astronauts on the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo, testing systems and gathering data critical for sustained luna ...

Humans haven’t been back to the lunar surface since the Apollo moon program ended over five decade ago. The reasons why go beyond science, according to experts.

Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke left a framed family photo on the Moon’s surface. Gene Shoemaker was a US geologist who studied terrestrial craters and discovered many comets and planets. When he ...

The first crewed mission of the Artemis program won’t land on the moon, but it aims to take four astronauts farther from the ...

Apollo 11 was the climax of nearly a decade of engineering risk and Cold War pressure. As the Lunar Module descended, ...

The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module. Module McGhee ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory creates a cislunar orbit map to help predict satellite stability and improve collision avoidance in increasingly crowded Earth orbits.

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...

(NASA) – On Feb. 9, 1971, the nine-day Apollo 14 Moon landing mission came to a successful conclusion with the splashdown of astronauts Alan B. Shepard, Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell aboard ...

Three developments stand out that will make the return to the moon effort different from the first time we visited Earth’s ...