The next stop was a nearby building where the Launch Abort System was installed on the Orion spacecraft. The tower-like abort ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin, the primary contractor for the Orion spacecraft, are now exploring the possibility of launching ...

Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be ...

The Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket have been attached at the hip for the better part of two decades. The big ...

Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges ...

NASA could launch its Artemis II mission, which will fly astronauts around the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, ...

"To call this mission fully successful, we need to go fly by the moon, bring the crew home safely and welcome them back with ...

When you think of a rocket launch, you likely imagine a massive explosion of flames and smoke expanding across the launch site as the propulsion systems hurl thousands of tons of metal into space.

NASA has confirmed that a spacecraft launched for a moon mission has gone missing shortly after leaving Earth. The space agency said contact with the craft was lost, and efforts are underway to ...

The US was the last country to put humans on the moon's surface in 1972, but China is shaping up to edge out NASA to be the ...

The most recent Starship test was also the last of SpaceX's current iteration of the rocket. Up next, plans to roll out the ...