As NASA prepares to send astronauts around the moon, a critical dress rehearsal on Monday will reveal whether its rocket is truly ready to fly.

The Artemis program, effectively a successor to the Apollo missions, aims to return Americans to the moon and lay the groundwork for future missions to Mars. It kicked off in 2022 with the uncrewed Artemis I mission, which marked the first integrated flight of SLS and Orion. Artemis II will be their first with crew.

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) - NASA pushed its Artemis II mission to March after wrapping up a launch rehearsal that uncovered issues with the massive Space Launch System rocket's fueling process,

Video shows the NASA WB-57 plane touching down with a jolt, its wings bouncing as yellow fire and white smoke bursts from beneath it.

NASA began a two-day practice countdown Saturday leading up to the fueling of its new moon rocket, a crucial test that will determine when four astronauts blast off on a lunar flyby. Already in quarantine to avoid germs,

New simulations performed on a NASA supercomputer are providing scientists with the most comprehensive look yet into the maelstrom of interacting magnetic structures around city-sized neutron stars in the moments before they crash.