If NASA’s ambitious lunar exploration plans succeed, scientists will cover the moon with sensors—and find answers to several long-standing questions about the inner solar system

NASA’s Artemis II mission is nearing completion after astronauts travelled farther than any humans in history during a lunar flyby. The Orion spacecraft is set to splash down in the Pacific Ocean, marking a milestone in humanity’s return to deep-space exploration.

As NASA's record-breaking Artemis mission bolsters the U.S. path back to the moon, China's bid to land astronauts there by 2030 is taking on greater

A hidden milestone lurks in the U.S.’s Artemis-focused lunar ambitions—the nation’s first-ever successful robotic moon rover

Artemis might return astronauts to the moon, but only after years of delays and a price tag far exceeding the government’s projections.

MOSCOW, April 7 (Reuters) - Russia has pushed back the launch of three moon missions, the Interfax news agency said on Tuesday, a setback to its ambitious lunar exploration programme as longtime space rival,

About 75 space fans gathered at U of A’s Flandrau Science Center to watch the Artemis launch. Flandrau projected NASA’s video feed in the Center’s planetarium.

In 1989, President George H.W. Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative with the goals of going back to the moon "to stay" and, eventually, missions to Mars, Muir-Harmony said. The initiative was ended by Bush's successor, President Bill Clinton, due to costs and in favor of less expensive missions.

NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS),