NASA wants to build a giant spaceship to orbit the Moon — but ultimately it’s designed to help send humans to Mars. The Lunar Gateway is a critical aspect of NASA’s Artemis program, a multi-mission ...

NASA has announced two sets of instruments that will be carried aboard its planned Lunar Gateway space station. NASA’s Gateway project aims to have astronauts orbiting the moon by 2025, with the ...

Humanity’s first lunar space station will offer new ways to explore space and do science, but it will also present unprecedented health and safety risks. Reading time 8 minutes NASA, along with a ...

Maxar Technologies will develop the Power and Propulsion Element, the first part of NASA's lunar Gateway to support human lunar landings starting in 2024. Credit: NASA Updated 6:15 p.m. Eastern. LOS ...

A NASA illustration shows an Orion spacecraft approaching the lunar Gateway with a logistics module, modeled on Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft, attached. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA formally ...

NASA plans a to build a permanent base on the moon with a step-by-step approach through 2032. | Credit: NASA NASA is officially sidelining the long-planned lunar Gateway space station to focus its ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Astronauts are already practicing living aboard the first space station ...

NASA’s announcement Tuesday that it will “pause” work on a lunar space station and focus on building a surface base on the Moon was no big surprise to anyone paying attention to the Trump ...

NASA's pivot from an orbiting lunar gateway station to a $20 billion south-pole Moon base over seven years is a major tailwind for lunar surface contractors, landers, launch providers and in‑space ...

Engineers are stress-testing the core module for Gateway, a lunar space station designed to provide astronauts with a place to live, conduct scientific research, and prepare for moonwalks. Credit: ...