NASA’s Artemis II astronauts will conduct life-support, radiation and observation tasks during their 10-day lunar orbit, marking the first human mission around the moon since Apollo 17.

In a recent development, NASA Artemis II astronauts are heading towards the far side of the moon after freeing themselves ...

Artemis II will fly astronauts around the Moon without landing as NASA tests Orion systems, crew operations, and mission steps needed before future lunar surface missions.

Artemis II has travelled 252,756 miles away from Earth, but setting this record is not the mission's main objective.

In 1989, President George H.W. Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative with the goals of going back to the moon "to ...

Tonight, four astronauts will strap into a capsule on Florida's Space Coast and do something no human has done since 1972, leave Earth's orbit and head toward the Moon. NASA's Artemis II mission, ...

Professor and scientist Anu Ojha showed students at The Royal Institution how far the Earth is from the Moon using a globe, ...

After launch, the mission follows a carefully planned path with system checks, a lunar flyby and a free-return journey back ...

NASA hasn't landed astronauts on the surface of the moon since 1972, but two upcoming missions could change that before the ...