NASA is preparing to launch a floating space station built to orbit around the Moon. The Lunar Gateway is meant to act as a space home and science lab – and serve as a base for astronauts to make ...

It’s no secret that humans (well, at least presidents) are aching to go back to the Moon. And now, we have more concrete plans on how we might do that. Earlier this week, the Human Exploration and ...

A NASA illustration shows an Orion spacecraft approaching the lunar Gateway with a logistics module, modeled on Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft, attached. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA will ...

When NASA sent astronauts to the Moon decades ago it did so using a pretty straightforward approach. After being launched into space by a rocket, the astronauts entered orbit around the Moon and then ...

NASA has announced two sets of instruments that will be carried aboard its planned Lunar Gateway space station. NASA’s Gateway project aims to have astronauts orbiting the moon by 2025, with the ...

When NASA got its marching orders last week to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024, many predicted that it would spell the end of the near-lunar Gateway project, a plan years in the making to build ...