The biggest remaining piece of the architecture, therefore, is a lunar lander. Known in NASA parlance as the Human Landing System, or HLS, the space agency has contracted with SpaceX for its Starship vehicle and Blue Origin and it Blue Moon lander.

Wednesday evening saw the official launch of NASA’s Artemis II, which is set to take four astronauts on a mission to circumnavigate the moon; the first time astronauts have been in the vicinity of the moon in more than 50 years.

Keeping the flight kit tradition alive.

NASA's top official on human spaceflight addressed the agency's International Space Station partnership on Monday amid growing global tensions, saying the orbiting research laboratory is yet unaffected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "We are not getting ...

During Artemis II’s lunar flyby, the crew will spend about six hours documenting the Oriental basin, a massive multi-ring impact structure humans haven't fully seen.