Watch how the Space Launch System rocket RS-25 undergoes a core stage engine test-fire. Credit: NASA's Stennis Space Center

The NASA and the United States are making a strong comeback in their lunar exploration programme — nearly 50 years after the Apollo missions. Stay tuned to this LIVE blog for all the latest updates on Artemis II mission.

What makes Artemis 2 consequential is not simply that four astronauts are heading around the moon. It is that NASA is about to put its full deep-space system through the kind of test that cannot be simulated completely on the ground.

By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, March 30 (Reuters) - NASA is preparing to launch the first crew of astronauts toward the moon in over 53 years with its second Artemis mission, a critical test flight in humanity's broader lunar goals as the U.

NASA is poised to launch four astronauts April 1 on a historic nine-day trip around the moon and back. Here's everything to know about the Artemis II mission.

“We are getting very, very close and we are ready,” Lori Glaze, acting associate administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, said as NASA pointed toward Artemis 2’s next launch opportunity.

An unannounced test of NASA's towering Space Launch System rocket uncovered another issue with the vehicle meant to soon launch astronauts on a mission around the moon. Ground crews at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida partially fueled the 322-foot ...

Experts say building a lunar colony within the next decade, as NASA and Elon Musk want to, will require finding solutions to problems we don't yet fully understand.

NASA is officially ready to put its X-59 experimental aircraft back in the sky