The space agency aims to send four astronauts around the moon early next year—and bring them safely home through intense heat ...

The United States is preparing to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than half a century, riding a ...

The NASA Artemis II mission, set to lift off as soon as February, will mark the first time astronauts have aimed to venture beyond near-Earth orbit since 1972.

NASA engineers have hot-fired the redesigned Artemis moon rocket in preparation for future Space Launch System (SLS) flights that will take humanity back to the moon and beyond. The test of the RS-25 ...

NASA’s Space Launch System appears to have a finite shelf life. The Trump administration wants to cancel it after just three launches, while the preliminary text of a bill making its way through ...

The Artemis II mission, which could launch as early as February, is expected to send four astronauts on a trip to the moon, ...

Such "countdown demonstration tests" have traditionally taken place shortly before launch with the rocket and crew ship ...

A major step toward launch day is complete as NASA's Artemis II astronauts ran through a countdown demonstration test.

NASA conducts an RS-25 hot fire on the Fred Haise Test Stand at Stennis Space Center in south Mississippi on Dec. 14. Credits: NASA/SSC NASA conducted the first test of the newly redesigned RS-25 ...

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi conducted a successful test firing Wednesday of the liquid-fuel AJ26 engine that will power the first stage of Orbital ...

Debris scatters on June 26, 2025, during a static fire test of a new solid rocket motor at a Northrop Grumman facility in Utah. The motor is supposed to be used in later Artemis moon missions. A test ...

Long, narrow wings are intended to reduce fuel consumption and increase comfort in aircraft. However, wing flutter must be ...