As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

In less than two weeks, NASA is scheduled to launch its Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed journey to the Moon in over half a century. The Space Launch Rocket has already been rolled out to the launch pad, setting the stage for a historic mission.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman appeared to suggest that space shuttle Discovery may not be relocated to Houston's Johnson Space Center in Texas.

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WASHINGTON >> NASA released fresh images today of the interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a comet likely older than our solar system, as U.S. space agency officials dismissed speculation that it is an alien spacecraft.

NASA released close-up images on Wednesday of the rare interstellar comet that's making a single pass through the solar system. One of the images shows the comet, also known as 3I/ATLAS, as it moves through space about 190 million miles from Earth.

For 13 consecutive years, NASA has been named the “Best Place to Work in the Federal Government” among large agencies. But since the Trump administration took over and proposed deep budget cuts, there has been an exodus from the agency — with many of ...