NASA Just Took a Major Step Toward Building a Moon Base
Three artist renderings depict commercial lunar landers from Astrobotic, Intuitive Machines, and Firefly on the Moon. NASA announced…
NASA Just Reshuffled Its Entire Spaceflight Strategy Around a Moon-First Future
NASA’s Orion spacecraft captures itself, the Moon, and Earth during the Artemis II crew’s deep space journey on…
Scientists Map Most Cost-Effective Route to the Moon Out of 24 Million Possibilities
Credit: ZME Science. In spaceflight, every kilogram matters. Each item you bring along increases fuel consumption, which means…
80-pound lunar robot built by students targets future Artemis missions
Students from University of Virginia are building robots designed to mine lunar soil and construct protective barriers as…
Scientists propose lunar lasers inside shadowed moon craters
Scientists have proposed placing an ultrastable laser system inside permanently shadowed craters near the Moon’s south pole, where…
Moon’s deep interior may be buried beneath future Artemis landing site
More than four billion years ago, something enormous slammed into the moon hard enough to carve out a…
Artemis II Just Proved NASA Is Closer Than Ever to Returning to the Moon
An artist’s illustration of two suited crew members working on the lunar surface. The one in the foreground…
NASA Just Released 12,000 Photos from Artemis II and Some Are Absolutely Breathtaking
For the first time in more than half a century, astronauts went around the Moon, came home, and…
‘Felt like falling out of sky’: Artemis II astronaut on Moon-bound journey
The four astronauts aboard Nasa’s Artemis II mission have crossed a major milestone, travelling more than 150,000 miles…