The system is outlined in a recent study, and it’s a lot more complex than one would think. Gateway and other spacecraft orbiting the moon are expected to use the near-rectilinear halo orbit, which takes spacecraft around both poles of the moon.

NASA's Gateway lunar station will use a string-of-pearls spacecraft formation to safely manage multi-vehicle traffic in Moon orbit.

The moon's getting its first airport, and it's about to get busy. Within the next two decades, NASA's planned Gateway—humanity's first lunar spaceport—may become a bustling hub for Orion crew capsules,

The Moon is slowly leaving. Each year it spirals about an inch and a half farther from Earth, roughly 3.8 centimeters, a pace measured so precisely that scientists know it to a fraction of a millimeter.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon Thursday night, breaking free of the chains that have trapped humanity in shallow laps around Earth in the decades since Apollo. The so-called translunar ...

A portion of a SpaceX rocket launched in 2025 is on a collision course for the moon and is expected to make impact tonight. Here's when.

But using GPS becomes much harder as a spacecraft ventures far beyond Earth. Its signals grow weaker, the geometry gets worse, and missions near the Moon still can’t count on the kind of continuous positioning service we take for granted on the ground.

A lunar eclipse is well worth going out of your way to watch and photograph. This Thursday night, North America will have an ideal view when 96% of the Moon's surface is obscured by Earth' shadow.