Artemis 2 won't land on or orbit the moon. But it will be the first crewed mission to reach the lunar neighborhood since Apollo 17 in December 1972. And it will pave the way for Artemis 3, which will ...

When the Artemis 2 astronauts launch to the moon next year, they will be accompanied by one of 25 plush toys just named a finalist in a NASA contest. The space agency and Freelancer, a crowdsourcing ...

How calm, cool, and utterly chill is the crew of NASA’s first Moon mission in more than half a century? Let’s start with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. “You know me, personally, I hope to take a ...

Discover a groundbreaking new way to fly into space in this captivating #shorts video. We delve into innovative technologies and explore how they are revolutionizing space travel, making it more ...

Historian Valerie Neal reveals how women astronauts transformed NASA and redefined what it means to explore space.

Poll: Most Americans think ordinary people will travel in space in years ahead. Feb. 8, 2008 — -- Four in 10 Americans are up for a ride in space – but the ticket price will have to come down by ...

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet ...

Hans Koenigsmann is one of SpaceX’s earliest, longest-tenured, and most-revered employees. When Elon Musk started the company in 2002, he was joined by two other “founding” employees, Tom Mueller in ...

The stratosphere is no longer empty. High-altitude platform and suborbital spaceplane operations are booming, yet our management of “near-space” remains stuck in the last century. We cannot afford to ...

Firefly Aerospace Inc.'s IPO is one of 2025's hottest, offering pure-play exposure to the booming space sector, despite its high valuation. The company boasts real achievements—Moon landing, ...