Re-entry was where the Space Shuttle truly faced its greatest challenge. Traveling at nearly 8 kilometers per second, the ...

Apple hardware has gone into orbit, starting with shuttle-era experiments, through a long exclusion, and now a controlled ...

NASA's Orion capsule will reenter Earth’s atmosphere Friday evening at nearly 25,000 miles per hour. With one more maneuver ...

Artemis II is almost home. More on the heat shield that has to hold: Coming home from the moon means extreme speed and blistering heat. CNN’s Tom Foreman explains what happens at reentry and why the ...

The four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft are heading to the Moon after completing the critical engine burn that ...

Never seen before images from the dark side of the moon, including an 'unbelievable' solar eclipse, continue to be downlinked ...

Photos show the rocket and spacecraft that NASA will use to launch astronauts toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

The four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft are heading to the Moon after completing the critical engine burn that ...

As humans work to get back to the moon - and then on to Mars - area companies are providing technology that's getting them there.

To say that I (like many Americans, and humans worldwide) have run the proverbial gamut of emotions over the last 24 hours or ...

Dozens of startups working on data centers, mining and pharmaceuticals are hanging on Elon Musk's long-stalled megarocket.

If NASA's colossal new moon rocket explodes on the pad or breaks up as it accelerates through the atmosphere, the space ...