America is headed back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years this week if all goes well on NASA’s Cape Canaveral launchpad. But first, four astronauts have to go to the dark side of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Northrop Grumman works on HALO, the main central module of the now-sidelined Gateway lunar space station. - Northrop Grumman NASA ...

Northrop Grumman works on HALO, the main central module of the now-sidelined Gateway lunar space station. Credit: Northrop Grumman NASA will shelve its plan for a small lunar space station in favor of ...

NASA will shelve its plan for a small lunar space station in favor of building a base directly on the moon. But as for NASA's time crunch for the moon base, that part is largely self-inflicted. A ...

NASA is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar ⁠orbit and will instead use its components to construct a $20 billion base on the moon's surface over the next seven years, its new chief ...

NASA's chief on Tuesday said the US space agency "intends to pause" its Gateway project that would have created a space station in orbit around the moon, instead shifting focus toward "building a ...

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It’s a well-known joke in science fiction fandom circles that the silliest thing about the Star Trek franchise is the lack of seatbelts on various Starfleet craft. That said, in the 1960s, Star Trek ...

In his 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent, John Steinbeck wrote of loss, “It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” The death of NASA’s Exploration ...

Boeing’s Starliner capsule was supposed to compete with SpaceX and become a key part of NASA’s human spaceflight program. Instead the spacecraft has faced repeated delays, technical problems, and ...

WASHINGTON — NASA has provided new details about its plans to procure a Mars communications orbiter funded under last year’s budget reconciliation bill as companies continue positioning themselves to ...