In 1958, the US Air Force drafted a top secret blueprint for an underground lunar base, aiming to seize the Moon as strategic high ground before the Soviet Union could. The plan promised a crewed ...

When fire breaks out in the low-gravity, high-stakes conditions inside spacecraft or space stations, it behaves very ...

Redmond facility will become part of Rocketdyne joint venture created by $845 million deal involving L3Harris and AE ...

Sanford Noyes "Sandy" McDonnell -- an engineer, businessman and philanthropist -- was CEO and then chairman of the board of ...

Moon dust is sharp, corrosive, and potentially fatal. NASA’s new electric force field shield is designed to blast it away.

Astronauts orbiting the Earth are drilled to deal with the worst possible scenarios. That includes having to leave a doomed ...

NASA plans to deploy a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030 to support long-term missions, but legal, safety, and budget risks remain.

Though Artemis II will not be landing on the lunar surface – Nasa aims to put boots on the ground by 2030, though China is ...

While Artemis II won't touch down on the lunar terrain - NASA targets putting astronauts on the surface by 2030, though China competes to arrive first - it will journey 6,400 miles beyond the Moon's ...

While Alan Shepard played one of the worst rounds of Moon golf on record, an experiment was circling the Moon 34 times on ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — The U.S. Department of the Air Force gave SpaceX approval to build a launch and landing pad for its Starship at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch ...

NASA began demolishing part of its own history over the weekend. Crews at the Marshall Space Flight Center are removing the ...