With Artemis II, SLS could become the most powerful rocket ever to launch humans. Its four main engines burn roughly 700,000 gallons of ultra-cold fuel, producing enough oomph to keep eight Boeing 747s aloft. Future versions of SLS, if they come to fruition, could deliver even greater power.

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in Laurel, Maryland. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid ...

NASA has also been studying water both near the Earth and in distant solar systems. On Dec. 16, 2022, a Space-X rocket carried NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite into orbit. This satellite will be looking down at Earth for three years in an attempt to survey nearly all the water on the Earth’s surface.

The US government space and energy agencies have renewed their commitment to work together to develop a fission power source for use on the surface of the Moon and future missions to Mars.  ;

With the Space Launch System facing potential cancellation, the Artemis program will already a rough time paving a path to the Moon and it's only getting worse. NASA announced last week that the next two Artemis missions will be delayed again following the ...

The next time Americans will see astronauts on the moon will now be no sooner than 2027, after NASA announced further delays to its Artemis program on Thursday. Artemis 2, a ten-day flight around the moon and back with a crew of four astronauts, is now ...