Future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond may no longer need to carry every drop of propellant from Earth. NASA has ...

Reaching Europa remains one of the hardest challenges in space exploration. Explore the massive spacecraft, fuel, and time requirements for a human mission and why today’s technology still falls short ...

Submarines are emerging as a unique research platform to study human adaption to extreme environments—from ocean depths to outer space. ESA, the Portuguese Space Agency and the Portuguese Navy are now ...

HOUSTON—Recent remarks by NASA’s acting administrator help define his commitment to keeping the U.S. ahead in space by returning Artemis astronauts to the Moon ahead of China and leading the way to ...

HOUSTON—NASA is contending with significant cost and schedule challenges with upgrades to its Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Exploration Ground Systems (EGS) as it prepares to begin crewed Artemis mission ...

The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...

"We've got a whole generation behind Artemis," said Walther Pelzer, head of Germany’s space agency, "and I think that would be a huge mistake if we would disappoint these young people." Credit: Tom ...

On April 14, 2025, Blue Origin launched six women—Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyễn, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn and Lauren Sánchez—on a suborbital journey to the edge of space. The headlines ...