NASA’s giant new moon rocket moved to the launch pad Saturday in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century.

The US government space and energy agencies have renewed their commitment to work together to develop a fission power source for use on the surface of the Moon and future missions to Mars.  ;

NASA is ramping up work on one large space telescope while also laying the groundwork for future observatories.

NASA has opened a global competition inviting chefs, scientists and innovators to help solve one of the biggest challenges of human space exploration: how astronauts will eat on Mars. The US space agency is offering a prize purse of up to $750,