Eventually, NASA plans to use the new rocket, called the Space Launch System (SLS), to set up a permanent base on the moon. "This is now the Artemis generation," Bill Nelson, NASA's administrator ...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

NASA is finally set to launch its new mega-rocket, shooting an Orion spaceship designed for astronauts around the moon, on Wednesday at 1:04 a.m. ET. In a bid to return astronauts to the lunar ...

The 322-foot rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Center workers, many of whom were not yet born when NASA sent astronauts to the moon a half ...

In order to modify the rocket so that it could travel much deeper into space, engineers needed to lighten the load. After all, the moon is roughly 239,000 miles from Earth, around 1,000 times the ...

NASA's historic moon mission blasts off 01:32. In a jaw-dropping spectacle, the 322-foot-tall Artemis moon rocket, the most powerful ever built for NASA, finally blasted off Wednesday with an ...

A spaceship skimming 100km above the Moon is capturing some of the best footage since NASA's Apollo missions. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander is in low orbit as it ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from launch pad LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center on the Intuitive Machines' Nova-C moon lander mission in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Feb. 15, 2024. (Gregg ...

Unveiled at the 2025 Paris Air Show in late June, the fully electric MONA LUNA rover represents a major leap for Europe's ...