For the first time, Earth’s Global Positioning System (GPS) has enabled navigation on the lunar surface. Without reliable navigation, exploring the Moon was like trying to find your way across a huge ...

While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...

Under its Artemis program — born during President ... refuel on the moon instead of lugging all the fuel from Earth. And since the moon’s gravity is one-sixth of Earth’s, it is a relatively ...

The first astronauts preparing to fly to the moon in more than 50 years want your help identifying their "moon mascot." ...

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 ...

Alabama State Park officials and the Von Braun Astronomical Society gathered on Thursday, March 20 to dedicate a Moon Tree.

As part of the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) experiment, NASA and the Italian Space Agency kickstarted a new era of ...

Artemis II, the program’s first human spaceflight test which was already pushed from 2024 to late 2025, now won’t fly until at least April 2026. Artemis III, the planned moon mission, is now ...

The Moon Tree, located near the John Scoble Memorial Pavilion in the park, will be protected by fencing and permanent signage ...

NASA Friday rolled out the new Artemis II Orion spacecraft and twin Space Launch System solid rocket boosters that will carry ...