One of the early highlights during the mission was the “Hello, world” image captured by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman as the Orion spacecraft left Earth on its outbound journey toward the Moon.

NASA has published over 12,000 images from the Artemis II lunar mission showing the beauty of Earth, the Moon, and life ...

Shifts in Earth's orbit around the sun influence the start and end of Ice Ages over tens of thousands of years and human ...

A Nature paper predicts the performance of a hybrid space–ground approach that combines a large ground-based telescope, such as the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) or ...

With a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on Friday evening, the epic Artemis II moon mission came to an end. Americans have been tracking the progress of the four astronauts — commander Reid Wiseman, ...

Every year, our planet makes one full trip around the Sun. And while that means we’re already moving at breakneck speeds, we’re about to ramp that speed up. Like, way up! Let’s turn Earth into a ...

Artemis II began its historic flyby of the moon Monday in the mission’s showstopper event — giving the crew the world’s first glimpses ever of parts of the lunar dark side, which they described as ...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Now it's time to set a new distance record. Launched last week on humanity's first trip to ...

The Artemis II astronauts launched but are still in Earth orbit. They will soon begin their journey toward the moon.

After a day of testing the Orion capsule high above the planet, the crew of the NASA mission became the first people to head into deep space since 1972. Katrina Miller Reporting from Johnson Space ...

NASA on Thursday gave the astronauts of Artemis II the go-ahead to leave Earth's orbit, a critical milestone in the first mission to send people around the moon since 1972. Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover ...

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 ...