During Artemis I, the Orion spacecraft heat shield suffered charring, prompting an investigation. Here's why NASA is ...

The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back.

Earth and the moon may look very different today, but they formed under similar conditions in space. In fact, a dominant ...

From a race with China to lunar discoveries, the US is investing time, effort and money to head to the Moon - and beyond.

NASA's Artemis II astronauts — three space station veterans and a Canadian rookie — stand out even in an astronaut corps full ...

NASA's Artemis II mission provides a crucial opportunity to study the moon and how the human body responds to deep space.

As humankind moves toward the goal of establishing a long-term presence on the moon and Mars, the question of whether reproduction is possible in extraterrestrial environments may no longer be merely ...

The crew members of the nine Apollo missions to the Moon remain, to this day, the farthest-flung human beings in history. The Moon is, on average, 250,000 miles (400,000km) from the surface of the ...

Neptune is the solar system's most distant planet, a cold, blue ice giant sitting nearly 30 times further from the sun than Earth. At that remote distance, temperatures plunge to nearly minus 200 ...

A chemical signature in a lunar rock offers new insights into what early oxygen conditions were like on the Moon.

A team of scientists looking at images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) have discovered a rare impact ...

A strange flicker from a star 11,000 light-years away reveals evidence of two planets crashing together in a rare cosmic ...