A moon spacecraft is one step closer to flying with humans on board in 2025.The Orion spacecraft, which will carry four ...

NASA's Artemis 1 mission's Orion spacecraft captured amazing views of the Earthset as the moon passed in front of it on ...

Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet.

NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.

This week’s mission is the first time a NASA spacecraft has been powered by European engineering. Artemis is not an all-American mission—it’s global. Orion is made of three main sections.

In late 2022, NASA launched its uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the Moon and back as part of its Artemis I mission, setting ...

We’ve had reason to doubt the September 2025 launch date for this mission, the first crewed flight into deep space in more than five decades, for awhile now.

For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late 2022, ...

The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in this view. Credit: NASA | time-lapsed by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface—a momentous engineering and science feat marked ...

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

On Monday, NASA had planned to attempt the first test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), a powerful megarocket that will launch the Orion spacecraft. This is the Artemis I mission ...