Astronomy enthusiasts can look forward to several celestial events in June. Venus will be at its greatest western elongation.

The moon will appear to skip over Mars between the nights of May 31 and June 1, appearing to grow ever larger ahead of its ...

The next phase of testing is set to begin for NASA's crewed Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon, the ...

Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the ...

Here’s how it works. Traveling to the moon is no easy feat. Our natural satellite orbits Earth at an average distance of 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers). So how long does it take to reach our ...

A NASA mission to explore a Jupiter moon believed to be one of our galaxy's most promising locations to search for life-supporting conditions is at long last underway. The Europa Clipper launched ...

"We don't fully understand the state of the vehicle." The first commercial spacecraft headed beyond the moon is on its way to deep space, but the mission is suffering from unknown issues as the ...

Over the course of 10 days, the crew will travel to the moon, swing around its orbit, and slingshot back to Earth. Along with Koch and Wiseman, mission specialist Jeremy Hansen and pilot Victor ...

Essentially, similar to how car clocks lose accurate time after a while, the same would happen to equipment on the moon’s surface. The proposed alternative still under creation and recently ...

Ahead of the Clipper is a six-year, 1.8 billion-mile journey to the Jupiter moon Europa to search for evidence that the world could be habitable. Europa is an icy celestial body that scientists ...

This time next year, NASA plans to send its first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years. NPR visited the facility to find out how... Meet the astronauts preparing to travel farther from ...