Despite budget cuts, the White House just gave NASA a high-stakes nuclear mission. Find out why a lunar reactor is crucial for deep space exploration.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman defends the budget cut, responds to “extinction‑level” warnings, and shares future NASA plans.

NASA is planning to increase the total value of a contract for robotic lunar lander missions to support a proposed surge in flights for a moon base.

After Artemis II took astronauts to lunar orbit for the first time since 1972, Nasa has released detailed plans for how it intends to establish a Moon base within the next decade. It is ambitious, to say the least,

We do not actually know how fire behaves under the Moon’s faint gravitational pull. By intentionally burning fuel samples on the lunar surface, a bold new mission aims to expose the hidden, counterintuitive rules of extraterrestrial combustion.

The Artemis program was officially named and announced by NASA in May 2019, when Artemis III was intended to land “the first woman and next man” on the lunar South Pole in 2024. Since then, the uncrewed Artemis I test flight launched in 2022, and Artemis II is complete.

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four humans to the moon for the first time in more than half a century. In a speech at a space policy event on Tuesday, NASA chief Jared Isaacman said that the mission

Nasa is preparing to light a fire on the Moon for the first time in history as part of a groundbreaking experiment ahead of sending astronauts back to the lunar surface. The space agency has said it will oversee a controlled fire on the Moon to understand how flames might behave during emergencies on future crewed missions.