For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts will be returning to the moon, and Mountain View's NASA Ames Research Center will be playing a pivotal role during Artemis II's mission.

The Artemis II mission launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 4:35 MT/5:35 CT on Wednesday, April 1, carrying four astronauts away from the Earth and towards the moon on a spacecraft called Orion. The crew will have to travel some 244,000 miles (393,000 kilometers) away to reach the moon, which will take several days.

The altitude chamber in the relocated NEAT facility is shaped to create a larger working area for testing. Credit: NASA Tucked away in the woods south of Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio, is a complex of unique test facilities that together tell a story of ...

Correspondent photo / Nancilynn Gatta Robin Unger, a librarian at the NASA Glenn Research Center gives a talk about the history of the center in Cleveland on Saturday at the Warren Trumbull County Public Library. She is showing the NASA logo in a book.

Artemis II mission will take 4 astronauts on a trip around the moon. The vehicle that will send them there? A massive NASA Space Launch System rocket.

The NASA Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center on the Eastern Shore could soon close to the public, according to federal workers who are fighting the closure. The move comes after employees received an email Monday listing several planned facility ...

The rocket launch capital of the world is still open. Like federal agencies across the U.S., NASA has no choice but to put a pause on many of its spaceflight operations after the federal government officially shut down on midnight Oct. 1. President Donald ...

There are three major NASA visitor centers that are not associated with a particular NASA facility, but are worth a visit if you're nearby. The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum NASA fans visiting New York City this summer should consider paying a visit ...