NASA is aiming for an April 1 launch date for a mission that will send astronauts around the moon and back as part of its ambitious lunar landing program.Four astronauts will fly aboard NASA’s Orion ...

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 ...

NASA said it plans to roll the Artemis II SLS rocket and Orion capsule back out to the launchpad next week, aiming for a launch in early April.

The Artemis program plans to return Americans to the moon’s surface for the first time since the Apollo era ended in 1972.

Cornell students reflect on the Artemis program seeking to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustained scientific presence there.

For centuries, humans have looked to the night sky searching for answers about the universe—and their place within it. For star astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, that instinct to explore remains one ...

The Van Allen Probe A, which was launched in August 2012, is likely to reenter Earth's atmosphere around 7:45 p.m. ET on Tuesday, NASA said in a news release, citing the U.S. Space Force. There is a ...

A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A massive space probe could plummet into Earth’s atmosphere as soon as Tuesday evening — years earlier than expected. And while most of the<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

NASA’s 1,323-pound Van Allen Probe A is expected to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere nearly 14 years after its launch.

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.