Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! On Dec. 11, 2022 – the time of the Artemis I reentry – this shield took severe damage, which delayed ...

A SpaceX rocket set to launch overnight will carry two lunar landers, one from Austin-based Firefly Aerospace and one from ...

A suite of NASA scientific investigations and technology demonstrations is on its way to our nearest celestial neighbor ...

Two robotic landers are set to begin their journeys to the moon Wednesday morning, when they launch aboard a SpaceX rocket ...

• Lost spacecraft: SpaceX said Thursday that its Starship spacecraft — which was meant to lap Earth and splash down in the Indian Ocean — exploded not long after its 7th test flight took off ...

The SpaceX rocket took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1:11 a.m. ET ... which is part of the space agency’s Artemis program — a framework under which NASA plans to ...

The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission has already flown, in 2022. The Artemis 2 mission in 2025 will use the SLS rocket to send a crew of four on a looping flight around the Moon aboard an Orion spacecraft.

The latest delays stem, in part, from an issue with the Orion crew spacecraft and its heat shield which was detected after a "skip reentry" during the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission in late 2022.