Lovell was a veteran of four spaceflights, including Apollo 13, during which he and his crewmates famously averted disaster.

Of the 24 Nasa astronauts who travelled to the Moon in the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s, just six remain.

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a mission designed to create high-resolution maps of water on the Moon, ended after losing contact with the spacecraft just one day after its February 26 launch. Despite ...

Lunar Trailblazer was set to map the Moon’s water in unprecedented detail but was lost after a communications failure soon ...

The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, the new race is to build there, and doing so hinges on power.

Trying to get a nuclear reactor on the surface of the moon is going to take time – maybe much longer more than NASA wants.

This is about space exploration. This is about this next phase,” Duffy, interim NASA administrator and ‘The Real World’ alum, ...

Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an ...

Learn how to watch the 2025 Perseids meteor shower at its peak, with NASA’s tips for seeing more meteors even under a bright full moon ...

A lunar nuclear reactor may sound dramatic, but its neither illegal nor unprecedented. But it does raise critical questions ...

The reactor would launch to the moon by 2030, according to a directive by acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy that was sent ...

According to a recent directive from acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy, the space agency will launch a nuclear reactor to the moon by 2030.