The Artemis II astronauts are on their way toward the moon and beyond Earth's orbit after the Orion capsule performed a translunar injection burn. Now that the Artemis II astronauts are leaving Earth ...

After Artemis 2, NASA's moon return hinges on two unproven commercial landers, each of which faces major technical and timeline challenges.

The crew of NASA's Artemis II mission are safely back on Earth after a nine-day mission took them on a trip around the moon and back, sending humans deeper into space than ever before. To come home ...

After traveling a greater distance from Earth than any humans before them, the astronauts of Artemis II had a successful splashdown Friday night. The four-person crew of Artemis II—commander Reid ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Still marveling over their moon mission, the Artemis II astronauts received a thunderous welcome home Saturday from hundreds who took part in NASA’s lunar comeback that set a record for ...

NASA is apparently pretty serious about building a base on the Moon, and the astronauts who just flew there say it is “absolutely doable.” Within two days of landing on Earth, the Artemis II ...

The Artemis capsule is expected to splashdown on Friday. Saturday, April 12, 1961 was the date of the first human space flight, carried out by Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet citizen. This historic event ...

The crew traveled aboard the Orion capsule (that they dubbed “Integrity”), which reentered Earth’s atmosphere before deploying parachutes and landing in a designated recovery zone, where teams quickly ...