Is an orbiting space station necessary to achieve lunar objectives, including scientific ones?

NASA is preparing to launch a floating space station built to orbit around the Moon. The Lunar Gateway is meant to act as a space home and science lab – and serve as a base for astronauts to make ...

Policymakers assess the Lunar Gateway’s role in Artemis amid funding debates, international commitments, and plans for ...

A NASA illustration shows an Orion spacecraft approaching the lunar Gateway with a logistics module, modeled on Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft, attached. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA will ...

An illustration of NASA's proposed Deep Space Gateway in orbit around the moon. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA is taking the next small step in the development of a proposed Deep Space Gateway in ...

In a talk at the Florida Institute of Technology on Thursday, NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine announced that Maxar Technologies will build the first stage of NASA’s planned Lunar Gateway. The ...

It’s no secret that humans (well, at least presidents) are aching to go back to the Moon. And now, we have more concrete plans on how we might do that. Earlier this week, the Human Exploration and ...