The Chinese space station Tiangong has been the stage for a new spacewalk. Two taikonauts successfully conducted an ...

US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the United States has selected a concept for its ambitious “Golden Dome” ...

NASA’s Artemis program has hit a critical snag—over 100 unexpected cracks have been discovered in the Orion capsule’s heat shield following the uncrewed Artemis I mission. The damage ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said the delays are needed to revise the Orion crew capsule's re-entry trajectory to reduce stress and prevent the sort of unexpected heat shield damage seen after ...

NASA reported after Artemis I returned to Earth that the vehicle's heat shield had experienced an unexpected loss of charred material. NASA intended to use this same material for future crewed ...

"Throughout our process to investigate the heat shield phenomenon and determine a forward path, we've stayed true to NASA's core values ... material in the thermal protection system that guards ...

NASA has announced that it is delaying its ambitious Artemis II and Artemis III missions, which will see astronauts travel around and then land on the moon for the first time in over 50 years.

Several of these issues are now resolved, but NASA has not released any meaningful updates on the most significant problem. This problem involves the Orion spacecraft's heat shield. During ...

NASA finally knows what caused the erosion of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield following its historic trip to the Moon in 2022, but the space agency is not telling, at least not yet.

For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late ...

The new report from the inspector general highlights the problems with Orion’s heat shield. NASA found that protective “char layer” material from the heat shield wore away unexpectedly ...

will install additional thermal protection material in the bolt gaps. The report added that the work for Artemis 2 can’t be completed until NASA finalizes its work on the overall heat shield.