NASA released a new image of the Artemis II heat shield, taken by U.S. Navy divers moments after the astronauts splashed down ...

Rather than completely burning up when a spacecraft reenters Earth's atmosphere, its heat shield's outer surface is sacrificed to protect the rest of the vehicle. The carbon fibers decompose, ...

Orion heat shield showed reduced damage and improved performance thanks to trajectory tweaks.

NASA’s Artemis II mission aced its heat shield test on the April 1 launch, sending 4 astronauts around the Moon, splashing ...

Questions over the suitability of Orion’s heat shield have been answered following Artemis II’s successful splashdown, with a ...

When you're whipping up a gourmet meal on your stove, you probably aren't thinking about what's happening behind it. The top high-output gas ranges generate a lot of thermal energy that directly hits ...

Now that NASA has resolved the question of the Starliner spacecraft and its two crew members on the International Space Station, the agency faces another high-stakes human spaceflight decision. The ...

Now that the four astronauts who flew around the moon are safely home, NASA is investigating how its spacecraft fared during the final minutes of the Artemis II mission. Subscribe to read this story ...

Off the coast of Baja California in December 2022, sun sparkled over the rippling sea as waves sloshed around the USS Portland dock ship. Navy officials on the deck scrutinized the sky in search of a ...