Artemis II mission will take 4 astronauts on a trip around the moon. The vehicle that will send them there? A massive NASA Space Launch System rocket.

The mission, called Space Reactor-1 Freedom (SR-1 Freedom), is set to launch in December 2028. This mission aims to showcase the use of nuclear fission in space to power electric thrusters. While nuclear technology has been around for decades, it lacked the drive, purpose, destination, and leadership—until now.

NASA's Artemis return-to-the-moon program is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Could a successful mission quiet its critics?

NASA plans to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars by 2028, a major step for deep space exploration and its planned moon base.

NASA is taking its next giant leap — not only to land on the moon, but to stay there.

Artemis 2 will be the first mission to carry humans toward the moon since NASA's Apollo program ended in 1972. Artemis 2 is the second scheduled flight of NASA's Artemis program and the first to fly astronauts aboard the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket ...

NASA unveils a multi‑billion‑dollar plan to build a long‑term Moon base near the lunar south pole as part of its Artemis space program expansion.

WASHINGTON — NASA announced major changes to its Artemis lunar architecture, adding a test flight of lunar landers in low Earth orbit while canceling planned upgrades to the Space Launch System. At a Feb. 27 briefing, NASA said it would change the ...

The findings were published March 20 in the journal AGU Advances and were based on data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, after NASA granted an extension to the spacecraft’s operations upon completing a five-year science campaign at Jupiter.

A new space race—this time with China—has NASA pivoting toward a more coordinated effort with private industry, academia, and international partners to fast-track a permanent Moon Base. Calling all space vendors,