"Every flight is almost a test flight … you're going out into the unknown." New NASA astronaut candidate Ben Bailey thinks that his 2,000 flight hours here on Earth might come in handy during a moon ...

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 ...

Call it a nuclear moonshot: The U.S. aims to deliver a reactor to the lunar surface and beat a push by China and Russia to do the same. In August, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy directed the ...

It’s a power move. The Trump administration aims to accelerate the construction of a nuclear reactor on the moon, Transportation Secretary and acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy wrote in a memo ...

As early as February 2026, NASA will launch the Artemis II mission and send four astronauts on the first lunar flight in over 50 years. But some internet-dwelling conspiracy theorists aren't convinced ...

The moon that has captured humanity's imagination for millenia. As an object so visible to the naked eye, yet so distant (approximately 239,000 miles from us), it's really no surprise. To date, just ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA ...