Space Exploration

A former NASA deputy administrator speaks candidly about the troubled history and radical potential of the space agency’s lunar return

The U.S. is preparing to send astronauts to the moon for the first time in 50 years

The launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission will also be the start of the first deep-space rendezvous to be conducted by a solar-sail-propelled spacecraft

When humans return to the moon, they’ll likely visit one of these 13 regions near the moon’s south pole

The Space Launch System rocket could lift off on its voyage to lunar orbit as early as late August

Commercial spacecraft are vying to land on the lunar surface, but can they jump-start a new space economy?

Long considered trivial, the effects of rocket launches and reentering space debris on global warming and ozone loss could soon become too large to ignore

The announcement comes as NASA and Roscosmos are laying plans to transition to other orbital habitats

Astronomers and the public alike are delighting in the glittering depths of the universe revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope

The suits, supplied by Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace, will be used in NASA’s upcoming Artemis lunar missions and will protect space travellers from micrometeoroids, moon dust and even vomit

The pioneering probes are still running after nearly 45 years in space, but they will soon lose some of their instruments