The Artemis II mission aims to send four astronauts​ — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — on a flight around the far side of the moon and back.

Natasha Wiest, Boeing's SLS core stage program manager, delivered a NASA Artemis II-themed speech to a space-industry audience in Cape Canaveral.

For the first time in more than half a century, NASA is preparing to send astronauts back into deep space, not just to low Earth orbit but around the Moon itself. Artemis II, the second flight in the Artemis program, will carry four people on a roughly 10 ...

NASA is targeting no earlier than March 6, 2026, for the historic launch of Artemis II, marking a major milestone in the agency’s return to deep space exploration.

A byproduct of aging nuclear weapons stockpiles could help power spacecraft on missions lasting decades. Americium-241, an isotope that can be separated from aged plutonium, is being studied as a potential alternative to the scarce plutonium-238 that has fueled deep space probes since the Voyager era.

NASA vs SpaceX rockets compared on cost, technology, and performance, revealing how reusability and innovation reshape modern spaceflight missions.

NASA should focus on the body and mind, not just engineering, for cosmic travel. Scott Solomon is a biologist and professor at Rice University and the author of “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds.” Astronauts are heading back to the moon — the first time anyone has approached it since 1972.

Thinking about food systems in deep space likely brings to mind something like The Martian where an astronaut is scratching barely enough food to survive out of potatoes grown in Martian regolith. Or perhaps a fancy hydroponic system on an interplanetary transport ship,