After an overnight Thursday trip back out to the launch pad, NASA's Artemis II rocket will be readied for a historic flight to the moon.

In 1959, the Luna 2 probe from the Soviet Union became the very first human-made object to reach our closest celestial neighbor. In the decades since, we have been leaving footprints—both literally ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 received the prestigious 2025 Robert J. Collier Trophy for achieving the first ...

NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight from California.

The Artemis 2 stack will leave Kennedy Space Center's (KSC) huge Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) tonight at around 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT on March 20) and head for Launch Pad 39B, w ...

As the first human on the Moon, Neil Armstrong famously reflected on the Earths fragility, calling it a “tiny pea, pretty and blue.” This observation captured how small and precious our planet appears ...

A U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut, Glover, 49, is assigned to pilot the Artemis II mission, a journey that will make him ...

NASA needs to wait one more day to roll its moon rocket back to the launchpad, but that shouldn't affect when it launches. The Artemis 2 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket has been ...

NASA had a contingency plan in case Apollo astronauts were stranded near the Moon, but it was far stranger and riskier than you might expect.

A century after Robert Goddard’s first-ever launch of a liquid-fueled rocket, two NASA experts weigh in on what his legacy ...

NASA's giant moon rocket will soon be rolled back to the launch pad ahead of the Artemis 2 launch date in April. Here's how to watch live coverage.

A look at how NASA coordinates astronaut recovery after ocean splashdown, including planning, training, risk management, and real-time operations with commercial partners.