With Artemis II, SLS could become the most powerful rocket ever to launch humans. Its four main engines burn roughly 700,000 gallons of ultra-cold fuel, producing enough oomph to keep eight Boeing 747s aloft. Future versions of SLS, if they come to fruition, could deliver even greater power.

NASA is facing a convergence of controversies, from delayed Moon missions to culture-war fights over telescope names and climate language, yet the agency often responds with clipped statements or technical briefings that leave the political stakes unspoken.

Astronomers discovered a "quasi-satellite" of Earth, also known as a "quasi-moon," dubbed 2025 PN7 in 2025. NASA told Snopes that 2025 PN7 has been in its current configuration "since at least the past 70 years and will remain so for another 60 years.

In December 2025, a post on X (archived) claimed that "NASA just dropped the mother of all bombshells" and admitted "we didn't go to the moon." For years, some people have insisted that the 1969 moon landing was staged and that U.S. astronauts never ...

NASA first announced that it would put a reactor on the moon “within a decade” in 2021. By 2024, the agency said the target date for delivering a reactor to a launchpad was in the early 2030s. Nuclear space reactors were first developed in the U.S. in the 1950s.