Will Artemis 2 launch toward the moon next month? Watch NASA’s mission update today

NASA will give an update about its Artemis 2 moon launch plans today (March 12), and you can watch it live.

Northrop Grumman’s 1st ‘Cygnus XL’ cargo spacecraft departs the space station

Northrop Grumman’s first “Cygnus XL” cargo ship departed the International Space Station Thursday morning (March 12), and is scheduled to deorbit and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere this weekend.

NASA’s DART planetary defense mission reveals asteroids hurling ‘cosmic snowballs’ at each other

New images from NASA’s DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

NASA just picked a new upper stage for its SLS moon rocket amid Artemis shakeup

NASA has wasted no time in selecting the vehicle that will replace the upper stage on its new plans for a standardized Space Launch System rocket.

NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft hit so hard, it changed its target space rocks’ orbit around the sun

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in the nick of time.

Will Proba-3 phone home? European solar-eclipse satellite goes dark

One of Europe’s two Proba-3 spacecraft suffered an anomaly last month, putting the future of the solar eclipse-creating mission in doubt.

NASA wants to accelerate its Artemis missions to the moon. It will need to drop some big hardware to do it.

A big restructuring of NASA’s plans to land astronauts on the moon is adding missions and speeding up the timeline, but some hardware might have to be cut loose in the process.

Japan’s 1st HTV-X cargo craft leaves the International Space Station (photo)

Japan’s new HTV-X cargo spacecraft departed the International Space Station today (March 6) after a four-month stay.

Russia fixes launch pad damaged by Thanksgiving astronaut launch to the International Space Station

Russia has fixed Site 31 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, the only pad supporting the nation’s human spaceflight missions. It had been out of commission since late November.

NASA is overhauling its Artemis program. What does that mean for humanity’s return to the moon?

In a major shakeup of the Artemis program, NASA is adding more missions to its timeline to land astronauts on the moon in 2028.