The Orion spacecraft that’s taking the four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and back is the largest crewed capsule ever sent beyond low Earth orbit – with habitable space roughly equal to that ...

The Lockheed Martin Orion is the latest arrival of a human-rated spacecraft slated to take humans beyond the bounds of Low Earth Orbit and close to the surface of another heavenly body. But for all ...

Life in space is weirder than you might think, with the crew facing toilet issues, saliva collections, DIY fixes to onboard components and a menu of dehydrated food.

The historic computer software code that took Apollo 11 to the moon has been open-sourced and is available to anyone to read, ...

The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey of the moon Monday, including the rarely glimpsed lunar far side, which always faces away ...

The capital of the U.S. is filled with museums -- many of them free to visit as they're part of the Smithsonian. It's no wonder these places are so popular.

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft and four astronauts lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. EDT, beginning ...

Excess charring on Artemis I's heat shield had NASA racing to understand what went wrong—and to ensure the technology was still safe for the current crew's high-speed reentry. The uncrewed Artemis I ...

Here’s a fun fact that’ll make your brain do a little flip: the world’s largest space museum isn’t in Houston, Washington D.C ...

A new book uses 50 objects to tell the story of America’s greatest adventure. Teasel Muir-Harmony During survival training in Reno, Nevada, astronauts (from left) Frank Borman, Neil Armstrong, John ...

The Apollo 13 mission remains one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human spaceflight. Originally planned as NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 13 instead turned ...