NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) is ready to fly with its four shuttle-era engines. The rocket, outfitted with the RS-25 ...

A stunning new photo shows the International Space Station passing in front of the moon. The ISS appears tiny against the moon's vastness — and it's almost 239,000 miles closer.

The International Space Station, orbiting 250 miles above Earth, is seen crossing in front of the moon on Feb. 5, 2025. Credit: Andrew McCarthy The International Space Station is nowhere close to ...

The International Space Station supports a wide range of scientific activities, from looking out at our universe to ...

The second phase seeks to achieve a crewed moon landing by 2040, followed by construction of the moon-orbiting station, India ...

Early on, the station will have enough space to accommodate four astronauts at a time. Unlike the ISS, Gateway will not be visible from Earth because it will be about 1,000 times farther from our ...

Graphic: NASA. NRHO is highly elliptical, so the space station will come to within approximately 1,865 miles (3,000 kilometers) of the Moon during its closest approach but then travel out to a ...

Astronaut Ron Garan sleeps in his sleeping bag on the International Space Station in 2008. (NASA) In March, two NASA astronauts finally returned to Earth after an eight-day mission devolved into a ...

The moon's glow meets a multicolored aurora in a new astronaut image from space. International Space Station (ISS) and NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick, a veteran photographer of the Expedition 71 ...

Sounds like utter lunar-cy. As the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) readies to return astronauts to the moon and convert the space rock into an orbital outpost, plans are appare… ...

Tracing its roots to 2012, where plans for a station called Deep Space Habitat were first drafted, the Gateway, as the construction has been called since 2018, will become an important part of the ...

As countries continue cementing plans for their lunar bases, one International Space Station astronaut is busy quite literally mixing the stuff. In a press release, NASA said that its astronaut ...