In a greenhouse perched a mile above sea level, a Wyoming researcher is helping lay the groundwork for a future where astronauts don’t just visit

Boeing's biggest role in Project Artemis could soon be obsolete.

Artemis II mission is set to launch at 6:24 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center. The mission will send a crew of four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon, marking a historic return to deep space in over 50 years.

NASA is revving up its plans for a successor to the International Space Station (ISS). On Tuesday agency officials announced that a formal request for information would open on March 25, kicking off

NASA’s most ambitious deep-space missions rely on plutonium to generate power where solar energy stops being practical. But the supply is limited, production is difficult, and every major mission adds more pressure to an already tight system.

Just hours before NASA's scheduled Artemis II mission around the moon was set to launch, 7News spoke with NASA's Langley's Technical Engineer for Space Nuclear

NASA has stopped work on a second mobile launch platform intended for an upgraded version of the SLS the agency no longer plans to develop.

We’ll get eyes on the moon, kind of map it out and then continue to go back in force,” said flight director Judd Frieling.