Orion's selfie with Earth and the Moon. Credit: NASA NASA's Orion spacecraft might have successfully traveled to the Moon and back, but its equipment wasn't fully stable throughout the journey.

NASA identified more than 100 locations where ablative thermal protective material was liberated during its speedy reentry.

For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late 2022, ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) ...

This is principally because NASA is continuing to mull the implications of damage to the Orion spacecraft's heat shield from the Artemis I mission nearly two years ago. However, it turns out that ...

The four Artemis 2 astronauts recently practiced a key contingency operation as they continue to prepare for their moon mission: opening the side hatch of their Orion spacecraft. If all goes well ...

The heat shield for NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft was installed in June 2023 at Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Cory Huston/NASA NASA says it has determined why its Orion spacecraft returned ...

a NASA instrument aboard a South Korean spacecraft, is taking pictures of the moon where the sun doesn’t shine. The screenwriters of “Fly Me to the Moon” say they emphasized the facts of the ...

U.S. export controls on space-related items were last significantly revised in 2014. Since then, the industry has continued to evolve towards a ...

In case of emergency on Earth, open the spacecraft door. The four Artemis 2 astronauts recently practiced a key contingency operation as they continue to prepare for their moon mission: opening the ...