In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch missions aimed at finding habitable worlds,

Since the end of the Apollo program in 1972, NASA has been looking for ways to return back to the moon. In 2022, the space agency launched the Artemis 1 moon mission, an uncrewed spacecraft that laid the foundations for the missions coming after it.

NASA NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three new science investigations that will strengthen humanity's understanding and exploration of the

NASA is inviting people around the world to submit their names to fly to the moon aboard the Artemis II mission, marking the first crewed lunar flight of the Artemis program.

This week NASA announced a list of launch opportunities for Artemis II , the mission that will bring 4 astronauts including North Carolina's own Christina Koch. But how is each selected?

Among the most pressing problems in the race to be the first to establish a permanent human settlement off the Earth is the availability of a sustainable source of power in locations where access to the sun is either impossible or intermittent.

Lunar exploration will surge in 2026 as NASA, China, and private companies race to land spacecraft and robots on the moon

A realistic and cost-effective path for the United States to advance the exploration and development of the moon, and to keep our nation in the forefront of that enterprise, is to dramatically increase robotic exploration efforts and to focus with urgency ...

Methane released in exhaust could move from one lunar pole to the other in less than two lunar days, with roughly half of it eventually depositing in areas that may preserve the original chemical building blocks linked to the emergence of life on Earth.

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday announced a renewed commitment to developing a nuclear fission power system for use on the Moon, a move aimed at supporting long-term lunar exploration under the Artemis program and future missions to Mars.