Engineers have identified the issue with the Orion spacecraft's heat shield, but NASA isn’t revealing the details yet.

Artemis 2 was initially slotted for a December 2024 liftoff, but that schedule was delayed in January 2024. NASA said several ...

Astronomer Carl Sagan famously wrote that humanity has a responsibility to “preserve and cherish the pale blue ... blue dot.” ...

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

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flew at speeds of 20,000 mph. endured temperatures approaching 4,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it entered Earth's atmosphere. NASA's Orion spacecraft that flew Exploration Flight Test-1 on Dec. 5 ...

NASA’s Orion capsule barreled through Earth’s atmosphere and splashed down in the Pacific ocean on Sunday (11 December) after making an uncrewed voyage around the moon. NASA's Orion Capsule is ...

Contact, navigation and control with Orion are routed through NASA’s Near Space Network and ... about a week in lunar orbit before return to Earth for a splashdown landing.

The Earth and moon are within view of NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft. The Earth is over 260,000 miles away (418,000 km) in this view. Credit: NASA | time-lapsed by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

Launched in December 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful infrared telescope to date, making it perfectly suited for measuring temperatures of faint objects in the Orion ...

That tiny pale blue dot in the distance is the earth viewed ... This image of the Orion Nebula is just one of them. Nebulas are vast clouds of dust and gas where stars form. NASA/ESA/M.