Could Artemis III astronauts collect some lunar samples that shed light on the moon's mysterious past? That's what a team of researchers hope.

A partnership with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company will revive a previously canceled NASA mission to send the VIPER rover to the moon. Credit: NASA NASA just brought back from the dead a science ...

NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket is getting ready to send four astronauts from Earth on a journey around the Moon in 2026. Engineers have upgraded the agency’s Moon SLS rocket inside ...

NASA reinstated the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission, awarding Blue Origin a contract to deliver the rover to the Moon's South Pole in late 2027. The $190 million ...

The VIPER moon mission scrapped by NASA last year could be going ahead after all thanks to Blue Origin, the space agency has announced. There was much dismay last July when increasing costs prompted ...

The United States' civil space agency NASA has announced plans to launch a crewed mission around the moon in April next year, ...

NASA's Orion spacecraft was moved seven miles to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Thursday, its ...

But NASA canceled that mission in 2024 after the costs for the rover construction ... But now VIPER is back with a ride on Blue Origin’s Blue Moon Mark 1 robotic lander, which also has yet to fly.

NASA Artemis 2, the first crewed mission of its Artemis programme, is now targeted for early 2026. Four astronauts will be flying around the Moon on a 10-day journey aboard Orion without landing, ...

NASA has decided to give the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Moon rover project another go after canceling the venture last year following delays and budget issues. The mission ...

The $190 million deal gives Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin a chance to prove its lunar lander and challenge Elon Musk’s SpaceX in ...

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER — NASA officials on Tuesday morning said the Artemis II mission that will see four astronauts orbit the moon might launch as early as February 2026, as long as all systems and the ...