Humanity has always looked up at the stars, whispering dreams into the void. But in the 21st century, those dreams are ...

The Starship-Orion mission has another benefit that sets it apart from a Lunar Gateway mission: It can be done without a powerful upper stage on the SLS rocket.

Gianluca Masi from the Virtual Telescope captured the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft when it was about 342,000 km (212,508 mi.) away. On the same day, Orion delivered an amazing view of itself and the ...

The Artemis 3 Orion capsule under construction at the Kennedy Space Center. The Artemis 3 mission in the late 2025-2026 timeframe, will carry the next man and the first woman to walk on the moon.

The late-night explosion at SpaceX's rocket development complex in Starbase, Texas, destroyed the bullet-shaped upper stage ...

A SpaceX Starship upper stage exploded during ramp-up to an expected engine test firing at the company's Starbase facility on ...

Astronauts in an Orion capsule, launched on the space agency’s own Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, will travel to the moon’s orbit, transfer to a waiting Starship lander, and ride it to and ...

The Starship is NASA’s “ace in the hole” for landing people on the moon by 2024. But certifying a new spacecraft for both a human launch and landing could be too rich for its blood.