NASA announced ambitious long-range plans Tuesday to spend $20 billion over the next seven years to build a moon base near the lunar south pole featuring habitats, pressurized rovers and nuclear power ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. The crew is ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced on Tuesday that his agency is rapidly progressing toward building a $20 billion base on the moon, instead of a space station that would orbit the lunar body ...

NASA’s new chief is reshaping the space agency’s goals, unveiling at an event in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday an ambitious vision that includes revamped plans for a moon base. While the space agency ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When a cat was spotted intently “watching” NASA’s Artemis II mission, the adorable moment quickly blasted off on social ...

The mission, called Space Reactor 1 Freedom, will test advanced nuclear electric propulsion. Upon reaching Mars, the spacecraft would deploy helicopters to explore the planet from the air. This ...

NASA will follow up the success of the unmanned Artemis I mission by sending a four-man crew on an exploration and testing trip round the moon. NASA plans on sending humans back to the moon before the ...

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the Artemis 2 mission stands at 322 feet tall. The SLS is NASA's most powerful rocket, generating 8.8 million pounds of thrust. While massive, the SLS is ...

The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on another world and inspire Americans. By Kenneth Chang Reporting from NASA ...

More than 50 years after the final Apollo mission, NASA today launched Artemis II, the first crewed mission to travel around the moon, as the full pink moon rose. Lifting off from Kennedy Space Center ...

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket that will take an astronaut crew around the Moon rolls out to the launchpad. Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images The next U.S. trip to the Moon isn’t about planting a ...

A concept presented by NASA March 24 calls for the agency to procure a module attached to the ISS that could serve as the core of a commercial station. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA, concerned about ...