NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars? By Sarah Scoles/Undark Published Feb 3, 2025 8:00 AM EST This article was originally ...

For a decade, NASA promoted the idea of building a space station around the Moon known as the Lunar Gateway. It touted the ...

Humanity is preparing to return to the Moon, and this time, to stay. Through its ambitious Artemis Program, NASA aims to ...

NASA and the Government of Japan on Thursday announced further contributions by Japan to Gateway, a key component of the agency’s Artemis missions for long-term lunar exploration. NASA Administrator ...

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: ...

The Apollo lunar missions worked by using a spacecraft in two parts. The Command and Service Module (CSM) and the Lunar Module (LM) traveled together from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy to lunar orbit ...

Soon enough, humanity will place a new space station in, well, space. It will be our species' third operational one, after the International Space Station (ISS) and the Tiangong Space Station (TSS), ...

A manufacturing issue involving a European company has resulted in corrosion in modules for both the lunar Gateway and a ...

From Space.com: NASA is pressing forward on plans to build a Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, an outpost for astronauts positioned in the space near Earth's moon.According to NASA, the Gateway will not ...

Astronauts won’t start inhabiting Gateway until the Artemis IV mission, now scheduled for no earlier than September 2028. Once onboard, the plan is to use the space station as a floating base camp for ...