A small robotic lander built by a private company and carrying a scientific payload for NASA touched down near the south pole of the moon 11 days ago… and promptly tipped over on its side. Even so, it's the first American spacecraft to land on the moon ...

Apollo-era Saturn V and Shuttle stands set for controlled demolition as Artemis ramps up With less than a month to go until NASA attempts to send astronauts around the Moon, the agency is demolishing facilities that got it there the first time around.

The spacewalk lasted about 6.5 hours, according to NASA. Two NASA astronauts have completed a spacewalk, stepping outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday to take part in U.S. Spacewalk 93. It is the first all-female spacewalk since 2023 ...

Whether Artemis ultimately fulfills its promise of sustained lunar exploration, or is reshaped by politics, budgets and competition with China, the program's first crewed flight around the moon will mark a definitive turning point. In 2026, humanity isn't just planning to return to lunar space — it's actually going.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were meant to go to the International Space Station (ISS) on a roughly ten-day mission. Instead, they have been “stuck” there since June, as the reliability of their spacecraft — Boeing Starliner ...

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore at a press conference from the International Space Station on Sept. 13. (NASA via AP) President Trump on Tuesday announced that he has asked SpaceX founder Elon Musk to “go get” two NASA astronauts who ...

“I worked at NASA proudly for 36 years,” says Jennifer Mason. “I decided to retire after it became clear that the current administration does not value science or federal employees.” There are thousands of people like Mason right now, leaving not ...

Within five years, NASA will launch a nuclear-powered drone to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, to search for the origins of life. The space agency this week confirmed its Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Titan, the fourth initiative under its New Frontiers ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Known across the globe as the stuck astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams hit the six-month mark in space Thursday with two more to go. The pair rocketed into orbit on June 5, the first to ride Boeing’s new Starliner ...

SpaceX and NASA are officially go to launch their next astronaut mission to International Space Station (ISS) this week, with its four-person crew arriving at their Florida launch site on Sunday (Feb. 25). Called Crew-8, the upcoming SpaceX mission will ...

President Donald Trump said he has asked Elon Musk's SpaceX to retrieve two NASA astronauts from the International Space Station (ISS), even though they were already scheduled to return aboard a SpaceX spacecraft in March. Trump made the announcement on ...