NASA’s Artemis II mission aced its heat shield test on the April 1 launch, sending 4 astronauts around the Moon, splashing ...

United Launch Alliance on Monday successfully deployed another 29 satellites into low Earth orbit for Redmond-based Amazon ...

NASA will test how fire behaves on the Moon using the FM2 experiment, aiming to improve safety standards for future lunar ...

NASA says the Artemis II mission continues to go according to plan, with its four-person crew seemingly euphoric as they know they're now truly en route to the moon. On Thursday evening, when their ...

Something new is being built in orbit — but it doesn’t begin from nothing. Piece by piece, modules attach to the International Space Station, forming something that will eventually separate and exist ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. The crew is ...

Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen blasted off at 6:35 p.m. ET Wednesday from the ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — On Wednesday evening, four astronauts blasted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in a historic mission. Artemis II's Orion flight, NASA's most powerful spacecraft to date, is on ...

In a throwback to Apollo, NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. They'll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn and then come straight back.