Decades ago, there was an Apollo Generation of children who came of age during the era of the lunar landing. NASA hopes to ...

Watching the Orion spacecraft of the Artemis II moonshot deploy its parachutes and glide down to land in the Pacific ...

White Sands Missile Range has continued to play a crucial role in supporting U.S. space activities well into the 21st century ...

Excitement over the Artemis II launch to the moon has raised some questions about the cost. The U.S. government has spent at ...

Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high.

But Kennedy sold the space program instrumentally as well, in a more familiar politician’s register. Sometimes he used the ...

WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents a vision for solar and space physics to advance understanding of physics in space; comprehend the ...

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said he expects to provide details about several agency priorities, including lunar exploration and commercial space stations, in the coming weeks. In a ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

In December 2017, the first Trump administration signed a directive refocusing the space program on sending American astronauts back to the moon, followed by missions to Mars and potentially even ...

We are in an era where planetary science no longer depends on government missions. Commercial capabilities are mature and ready to deliver a higher cadence of planetary exploration that fits within ...

Japan’s national space agency – the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) – was established in 2003, but the history of Japan’s space programs dates all the way back to early developments in ...