Engineers, technicians, mission planners, and the four astronauts set to fly around the moon next year on Artemis II, NASA's first crewed Artemis mission, are rapidly progressing toward launch.

Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA is delaying the next competition for an astrophysics mission by a year, the latest sign of the fiscal pressures an upcoming budget proposal is placing on the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Citing the proposed budget cuts by the Trump administration, NASA announced on Friday that after the Artemis III mission — where Americans will return to the moon ...

An illustration of the Psyche spacecraft and its asteroid. NASA The Psyche spacecraft launched nearly two years ago and is currently on its way to rendezvous with a unique asteroid in an effort to ...

The VIPER Mission: Exploring the Moon’s Icy Secrets The VIPER rover was specifically designed to hunt for water ice near the Moon’s south pole. This area is central to NASA’s Artemis program ...

All NASA science instruments and missions, regardless of their cost and risk profile, are selected based on their scientific merit. In other words, the science questions themselves aren’t ...

NASA's SLS rocket ahead of its launch for the Artemis 1 mission on November 16, 2022. NASA/Joel Kowsky The U.S. administration is proposing a $6 billion cut to NASA’s budget for next year ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.

For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, NASA officially has its hands on a spacecraft expected to fly humans to the moon. Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the Orion space capsule ...

Lockheed Martin officials handed over the "keys" to the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft to NASA, marking the start of its processing for launch. With the completion of its assembly and testing of the ...

The next spacecraft to fly humans around the moon has been delivered to the only space agency on Earth to ever successfully fly astronauts to our nearest celestial neighbor. Orion, the capsule ...