A subcontractor for NASA’s planned moon-orbiting station has laid off 70 people because the space agency halted the program, SpaceNews reports. Paragon Space Development Corp., based in Tucson, Arizona,

A handful of other countries have their own lunar programs, as does the European Union. Through 2030, governments and private entities have planned more than 400 missions in the next two decades to fly past or circle the moon or to land crewed or uncrewed ...

NASA Plans Moon Base, Nuclear Spacecraft in Multibillion-Dollar Moon Program Expansion By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - NASA announced on Tuesday it has canceled plans to deploy a space ⁠station ⁠in lunar orbit and will instead use ...

Humans have been flying missions to the Moon since 1959, when the Soviet Union’s Luna 1 spacecraft passed within several thousand kilometers of the lunar surface. But in all that time, across more than 100 successes and failures, no spacecraft has ever landed at the South Pole of the Moon.

NASA said Friday it's revamping its Artemis moon exploration program to make it more like the fast-paced Apollo program half a century ago, adding an extra practice flight before attempting a high-risk lunar landing with a crew in two years. The overhaul ...

People may know Artemis as NASA’s return-to-the-Moon program. However, it is much more than a rerun of Project Apollo. Amanda Laughead The Orion spacecraft (silver) and European Service Module (white) on day 13 of the Artemis 1 mission with the Earth and ...

NASA plans to soon launch a new space telescope that will survey a billion galaxies to trace how the universe evolved over time, all courtesy of America’s spy program and decades of research into detector technology.