Four astronauts will take on the venture as the first crewed mission on NASA’s path to establishing a long-term presence on the Moon for science and exploration, according to NASA.

NASA and the Energy Department are developing a nuclear reactor to be used on the moon's surface, with the project set to power lunar missions as soon as 2030.

In 2026, astronauts will travel around the moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple nations will launch missions aimed at finding habitable worlds,

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 5:05 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 14, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission.

NASA has selected L3Harrist o develop advanced optics and mirror systems for the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a flagship space telescope searching for life beyond Earth.

NASA schedules live coverage as the Artemis II Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft roll from Kennedy Space Center’s assembly building to Launch Pad 39B.

NASA announced a renewed commitment to their longstanding partnership to support the development of a fission surface power system.

NASA begins demolishing outdated facilities in Alabama as new administrator Jared Isaacman launches major infrastructure modernization efforts for space exploration.

NASA first announced that it would put a reactor on the moon “within a decade” in 2021. By 2024, the agency said the target date for delivering a reactor to a launchpad was in the early 2030s. Nuclear space reactors were first developed in the U.S. in the 1950s.