It’s been 54 years since the last Apollo mission, and since then, humans have not ventured beyond low-Earth orbit. But that’s all about to change with next week’s launch of the Artemis II mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

NASA announces Artemis II launch date for Feb. 6, sending four astronauts around the Moon for the first time in over 50 years in historic 10-day mission.

Executive Order 14369 (the EO) calls for America’s return to the moon by 2028 and initial elements of a permanent lunar outpost by 2030, with a commercial pathway to replace the International Space Station (ISS) by 2030.

A U.S. commercial spacecraft has successfully landed on the Moon, confirming a major advance in the partnership between NASA and the private space sector. The achievement marks a new phase in lunar exploration,

From a return of humans to lunar orbit, to Japan's first crack at Mars, advanced space travel and exploration is set to continue in 2026.

At the height of the Cold War, US Air Force officials proposed a terrifying plan to help America demonstrate its superiority over the Soviet Union: detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon.

The UTA sapling was one of thousands of seeds on 2022 Artemis I mission, launched to test aircraft to fly crews back to the moon.

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be preserved in lunar soil.

GRU Space hopes to have the first lunar hotel that will eventually serve as a hub and, in the future, will be the foundation for an established civilization on the moon.

The moon greets Jupiter two days ahead of its full moon phase on Feb. 1. Look east at sunset on Jan. 30 to spot the near-full moon shining close to the gas giant Jupiter among the stars of the constellation Gemini.