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

Once launched, Artemis 2 will circle Earth twice before performing a translunar burn.

NASA’s Artemis II mission to carry four people around the moon and back could launch as early as this Sunday, Feb. 8. Backup ...

On Jan. 31, 1971, Apollo 14, the third U.S. mission to land on the moon, blasted off using a Saturn V rocket from Kennedy ...

Space has long been a matter of great curiosity and perplexity for humans. Astronauts ...

Several robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon can take detailed pictures of its surface, so why send people around the Moon? A ...

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.

NASA is now targeting March 2026 for Artemis II — the first crewed lunar mission since 1972. It will set the stage for ...

The first manned mission of the Artemis program won’t land on the moon, but it aims to take four astronauts farther from the Earth than anyone has gone before.

All going well, a four-person crew will soon launch into deep space. But delays and troubled test flights have led some to ...

Almost as tall as a football field, NASA's Space Launch System rocket and capsule stack traveled slowly - just under 1 mile per hour - out to the ...

Artemis II is set to blast off to the moon in early February with four astronauts, including the Canadian Space Agency's ...