In high-stakes roles, NASA launch and mission control teams on the ground will keep the Artemis II astronauts safely on track during a 10-day journey around the moon.

When they awoke aboard the Orion spacecraft, the astronauts were approximately 169,000 miles from Earth and closing in on the moon

The mission, which launched on April 1, will see a crew go further into space than anyone else and is expected to reach the far side of the moon on April 6.

NASA armed astronauts with grenades and space mortars not to fight, but to crack open the moon's deepest secrets. What they found buried beneath the surface raised more questions than answers.

A giant rocket’s tower of flame lifted three Americans and one Canadian at 6:35 p.m. Eastern on the first crewed journey that will go around the moon since 1972.

During a briefing on the Artemis II rocket and its ongoing repairs, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that the Artemis III mission won't land on the moon as originally planned in 2027 - giving rise to some conspiracy theories. NASA said they're ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The countdown clock for the launch of NASA Planned for 2027, the new mission comes as the US aims to establish regular lunar missions, a long-awaited follow-up to its first moon missions ...

The Artemis II crew is almost at the moon, and the astronauts spent this weekend carrying out preparations for their lunar flyby on Monday. That included manual piloting demonstrations, reviewing their science objectives for the six-hour observation period and evaluating their space suits,