The White House has announced that NASA will work with the Departments of Defense and Energy to put nuclear reactors in orbit and on the surface of the moon. Having demonstrated that it has the ...

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On April 1, NASA used the Space Launch System rocket to launch the Orion spacecraft. Its mission: Spend 10 days in orbit, fly around the moon, take pictures, do some science, and then splash down ...

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A memo released by the Trump administration on Tuesday detailed a goal of having a nuclear reactor on the moon’s surface by 2030, a move that furthers the United States’ quest for supremacy in space ...

WSJ’s Micah Maidenberg breaks down the key takeaways from the Artemis II mission, lessons learned and what they mean for NASA’s moon landing schedule. Photo: Bill ...

The Artemis II astronauts concluded their record-breaking 10-day journey on Friday with a smooth splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. NASA’s Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight around the moon in ...

With a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Friday evening, the epic Artemis II moon mission came to an end. Americans have been tracking the progress of the four astronauts — commander Reid Wiseman, ...

You can probably conjure this vision of the moon—hold the image in your mind and transmit it off this planet and onto our shining opalescent companion. Peaks in the sun? I’ve seen that. This week, we ...

The data pipeline from NASA’s Artemis II mission opened to full blast a few hours after looping behind the far side of the Moon on Monday night, when the Orion spacecraft established a laser ...