The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has spent 21 years as astronomy's first responder, swinging toward exploding stars faster than any other telescope. Now it is falling toward Earth. And on July 3, a ...

NASA is about to launch a space observatory that could help settle some of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will study how the universe began, what it ...

NASA has chosen 41 commercial technology projects that could solve critical challenges for future missions to the Moon and ...

If the pending Artemis II mission is successful, it will not just send Americans around the moon and back for the first time in more than half a century—it will send them further than any human being ...

From Mercury & Apollo Missions to the Space Shuttle Program, Mars Rover Landings, and Artemis II.

If you thought 2025 was an exciting year for spaceflight and cosmic discovery, just wait til 2026. The past year was one filled with monumental human missions to orbit, headline-grabbing experimental ...

Conceptualized just a few months ago, NASA’s moon base plans are rolling out in earnest as the space agency maps out plans to deliver landers, rovers, buggies and other assets to the lunar surface.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Instead, that task will fall to Artemis 4, with Artemis 3 launching sooner with a different mission framework, and with a ...

Over the first quarter of the 21st century, two major trends have transformed the global space industry. The first is the rapid rise of China’s space program, which only flew its first human to orbit ...

People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo. Amanda Laughead The Orion spacecraft (silver) and European Service Module (white) ...