After four years of operations around the Moon, NASA's CAPSTONE mission has bitten the lunar dust, in a manner of speaking.

NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars? By Sarah Scoles/Undark Published Feb 3, 2025 8:00 AM EST This article was originally ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

For a decade, NASA promoted the idea of building a space station around the Moon known as the Lunar Gateway. It touted the facility as both a platform for exploring the lunar environment and testing ...

The first crewed mission of NASA's Artemis moon program may take off in a matter of days, with a launch window that opens on April 1, and as preparations are underway for that, the space agency is ...

A maze of cables and sensors snakes through a major piece of Gateway, humanity's first space station around the moon, during a key testing phase earlier this year to ensure the lunar-orbiting science ...

Three months ago, during a flashy event at its Washington, DC, headquarters, NASA announced that it was shifting the focus of its lunar plans from an orbital space station to a Moon base on the ...

NASA has also put out a request for human health researchers to suggest deep-space studies. Further off, scientists are also planning robotic exploration of the lunar surface, in which astronauts ...