When Apollo 14 returned to Earth in 1971, it brought with it an unexpected legacy: hundreds of tree seeds that had orbited ...

While Alan Shepard played one of the worst rounds of Moon golf on record, an experiment was circling the Moon 34 times on ...

NASA is branching out into schools by inviting teachers to apply for a chance to bring a “moon tree” seeding into their classrooms. In Nov. 2022, NASA teamed up with the USDA Forest Service to send ...

SpaceX has fallen behind in developing a crewed lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission, prompting the agency to reopen the contract to other providers. The added pressure has pushed SpaceX to ...

NASA's Artemis campaign is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Starship, the approximately 400-foot megarocket that ...

Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates alike. But ...

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, ...