The last time a human has traveled beyond low Earth orbit came aboard the final Apollo mission over 50 years ago. And it’s been eight years since NASA debuted Artemis, the U.S. space agency’s program ...

Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges on SpaceX’s Starship.

The Artemis SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2022. NASA NASA is gearing up to send its first ...

The solid rocket boosters for the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) Core Stage are readied in NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 25, 2025. Engineers ...

NASA has cleared the Space Launch System (SLS) heavy launch vehicle for human-rated flight ahead of next year's Artemis II mission, which will send a human crew into lunar orbit for the first time in ...

NASA's Artemis II mission, targeting April 2026, will send the first humans around the Moon in over 50 years. Engineers have ...

All of the original US senators who created and sustained NASA's Space Launch System rocket over the last 15 years—Bill Nelson, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Richard Shelby—have either retired or failed ...

NASA managers agreed to blast off the SLS rocket for the first time early Wednesday morning after agency engineers navigated through several challenges during fueling. The launch of the SLS rocket is ...

Rocket Lab to sell common shares. The space company said Tuesday that it intends to raise up to $750 million by selling ...