Georgina Torbet

With NASA planning to launch four astronauts on Wednesday on its Artemis II mission, the race to return to the Moon is back on. The current mission will see astronauts aboard the Orion capsule travel around the Moon before returning to Earth in 10 days' time. They'll be testing out the hardware and systems that could soon see Americans standing on the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years in the Artemis IV mission scheduled for 2028. NASA isn't ready to land people on the Moon just yet, but that's the aim for the next five years: to not only get people onto the Moon but establish a lengthy human presence on its surface.

1 minute ago As the Artemis II astronauts prepare for the most dramatic and potentially dangerous part of their mission — reentry into

It's either a gilded pathway to the stars or a financial black hole.

Georgina Torbet Jupiter is famous for its striking, stripey appearance, looking like an orange and white marble covered in streaky, complex patterns.

Artemis II was a triumph, but the reasoning behind the mission could have more to do with politics than science

An almost invisible galaxy could crack open one of the biggest questions in cosmology

The European Space Agency (ESA) is working on a new mission called Near-Earth Object Mission in the Infrared, or NEOMIR, which aims to detect asteroids.

How do you map something you can’t see? Scientists may have found a way

The Trump administration is waging a culture war on science, and the latest salvo is in the form of a dry, bureaucratic proposal from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that could threaten the future of US science as we know it. The proposal would give political appointees unprecedented control over…

The Planetary Society warns that a new proposal from the Trump administration could seriously harm space science.