A stray piece of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is on course to smash into the moon’s surface at several times the speed of sound ...

A Falcon 9 upper stage has been stuck in a highly elliptical Earth orbit for over a year—and now it's on a collision course ...

The Artemis II mission is expected to splash down off the coast of California on Friday night around 8:00 p.m., after successfully orbiting the Moon and breaking the record for the furthest from Earth ...

May’s flower moon rose in twilight on Friday, setting the stage for a rare second full moon — a blue moon — later in the ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts launched on a nine-and-a-half-day mission around the moon and back. The rocket lifted off ...

India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft captured views of the moon during lunar orbit insertion. Chandrayaan-3's touchdown on the moon is targeted for end of the summer. Credit: ISRO | edited by Space.com's ...

The engine firing provided a slingshot-like boost to the Orion capsule, speeding it to 24,500 mph, the velocity needed to break free of Earth's gravitational clasp for a trek to the moon.

The 10-day mission will send the crew around the Earth and then out to loop around the moon, where they'll see the far side ...

The mission is expected to last about 10 days, with the crew reaching the moon's vicinity on around day five or six before ...

The ongoing military conflict regarding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz may well mirror a future situation off-Earth — the use ...