NASA to roll out rocket for Artemis 2 moon mission
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The coming year's space highlights include a NASA mission that will send astronauts around the moon and a Blue Origin lunar lander mission.
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Moon fever hits DC as Artemis 2 rocket 'candle' lights up Washington Monument just 1 month before launch (photos)
The 250th anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence will also feature the historic Artemis 2 astronaut mission around the moon.
NASA’s Gateway is coming to life with a solar-powered spacecraft built to light it up—and move it around the Moon.
Four astronauts are about to become the first humans to venture near the moon in more than half a century since NASA's iconic Apollo era ended.
A growing fleet of privately built spacecraft is preparing to attempt robotic landings on the moon as humanity's exploration efforts expand.
In our first segment, SpaceNews correspondent Debra Werner sits down with Jason Kim, CEO of Firefly Aerospace, to discuss the company’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 — an award-winning lunar landing that delivered multiple NASA payloads to the moon and marked a major milestone for commercial lunar exploration.
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The moon, designated S/2025 U1, is about six miles (10 kilometers) in diameter, which made it hard to spot by other spacecraft and observatories.
As lunar missions increase, scientists warn that spacecraft exhaust may contaminate sensitive regions of the moon faster than expected.
A study has cast doubt on the idea that Jupiter's moon Europa, where NASA has sent a spacecraft, could have conditions to support contemporary life.
On 1968, NASA launched the seventh and final Surveyor spacecraft on a mission to explore the moon. Like its six predecessors, Surveyor 7 was a robotic spacecraft sent to demonstrate the feasibility of doing soft landings on the moon.
Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes that 2025 PN7 has been in its current configuration "since at least the past 70 years and will remain so for another 60 years.