Artemis I

The ESA will request €600 million from member states at a ministerial council later this month for the first cargo mission of the Argonaut lunar lander.

Axiom Space and KBR have reached a milestone in the commercial development of Axiom’s Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit.

NASA's upcoming Artemis II mission has down-to-earth themes: "crawl, walk, run" and "know as you go."

Firefly Aerospace has sold data it collected during its lunar land Blue Ghost Mission 1 to NASA for $10 million.

The window for NASA’s Artemis II mission that aims to take four astronauts around the Moon could open as early as Feb. 5.

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 the human exploration of Mars.

NASA and NOAA are planning a rideshare launch of three satellites to help protect astronauts from radiation on their planned Artemis missions.

Crowdsourcer HeroX and NASA are holding an upcoming “Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge."

In the waning days of June, NASA and its contractors conducted three tests and demonstrations for Artemis missions that the Trump administration seeks to end.

NASA's flagship initiative to expand human presence into deep space under the Artemis program continues multibillion-dollar cost overruns, the GAO says.

Northrop Grumman and NASA on June 26 conducted the first test of its Booster Obsolescence Life Extension solid rocket motor.

A modest hike in NASA’s budget to push human space exploration into deep space would be offset by massive cuts in the rest of the agency’s budget.

Jared Isaacman, a billionaire technology entrepreneur with a passion for flight, has moved a step closer to taking over as the head of NASA.

Intuitive Machines says it has successfully integrated and tested an autonomous driving system for the Moon RACER Lunar Terrain Vehicle.

Jared Isaacman, President Trump’s nominee to be NASA administrator, has stressed the importance of returning to the Moon with human explorers ahead of China.

NASA is working diligently toward the April 2026 launch schedule for Artemis II, Acting Administrator Janet Petro says.

Intuitive and NASA are awaiting imagery from the agency’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to establish whether Athena is upright, leaning, or tipped over.

New spins on NASA-developed heat shield technologies paved the way for an era of reusable space vehicles.

Boeing is NASA’s primary contractor for the Space Launch System (SLS), a human-rated heavy-lift rocket for deep-space travel.

Released Feb. 6, NASA’s independent Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) report identified risk, management and budget challenges.

The effort is part of Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic’s Griffin Mission One (Griffin-1).

If NASA puts all its resources into sending a U.S. person planting the U.S. flag on Mars, the game changes for the European, CNES President Lionel Suchet says.

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Either option would cut the flagship $11 billion Mars Sample Return mission’s cost by at least 30% and as much as 47%.

NASA again has pushed back anticipated launch dates for the Artemis II and Artemis III crewed lunar missions in light of Orion crew capsule heat-shield damage.