The Artemis II mission will be the first on which this NASA rocket and capsule carry people. The crew will be the first to ...

A six-day launch window opens on April 1 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The lunar orbital mission would be the first time humans have returned to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

After postponing launch opportunities in February and March, the agency determined that four astronauts could proceed toward the first crewed lunar journey in more than 50 years.

As its name suggests, Artemis 2 will be the second mission of NASA's Artemis program — but it's the first to fly a crew aboard Orion. An uncrewed Orion capsule launched on Artemis 1 in November 2022 ...

A massive rotating spacecraft designed to carry 1,000 humans across interstellar space is forcing scientists to rethink how civilizations could survive far from Earth.

Climate change is lengthening our days because rising sea levels slow Earth's rotation. Researchers from the University of ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known object to visit our solar system from another star, carries a chemical signature ...

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

Discover why healthy soil is vital for our food supply, climate, and future, and how human actions—like intensive agriculture, deforestation, and pollution—are causing rapid soil degradation.

The Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) has barely begun observations and is already wowing us. Images like its Cosmic Treasure Chest have us anticipating even more cosmic glory. And when the observatory ...

The Van Allen probe, which studied how the Earth is protected from harmful space radiation, could fall to Earth tonight. Here’s what to know ...