Astronomers are closely monitoring Asteroid 2024 ... NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has ruled out that scenario. Instead, scientists are now focusing on its potential trajectory toward the ...

It has been more than 50 years since a crew splashed down on Earth after flying to the moon. Now NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense are preparing to do that again in support of the space ...

With all that in mind, NASA announced that it ... set to launch sometime in November 2024, will see the Orion space capsule taking a crew of four around the Moon. The mission will test the overall ...

The near-Earth asteroid 2024 ... the moon on its closest approach to Earth in 2032. This is the result of the first observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, according to the NASA ...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 mission, a part of NASA's $2.6 billion Commercial ... spacecraft since the Apollo era to land on the moon in February 2024. Although Odysseus tipped over on touchdown ...

A "very small chance," however, still remains for asteroid 2024 YR4 to impact the Moon on that date and that probability is currently 1.7 percent, according to NASA. Asteroids are small rocky ...

NASA and the Italian Space Agency's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment succeeded in its first attempt to acquire Earth-based navigation signals from the moon on March 3, 2025. Credit: NASA / Dave Ryan ...

NASA's Artemis program aims to use the Moon as a stepping stone for human exploration of Mars. Artemis II, scheduled for 2026, will be the first crewed mission of the program, orbiting the Earth ...