NASA’s Artemis II program is part of a new global space race. This time, world powers have much bigger ambitions.

The Artemis II mission fulfilled the original objective planned during Trump's first term and has origins in prior administrations.

Astronauts from NASA’s Artemis II mission reflected Thursday on the quirks, challenges, and broader implications of their historic journey around the moon, offering a mix of humor and insight into what happens during human spaceflight.

America’s last lunar venture went down in February 2024, when the US landed an unmanned lunar spacecraft called Odysseus near the moon’s south pole; its first in 50 years. Odysseus carried six NASA experiments and six commercial items, including a Jeff Koons sculpture.

Why go to the Moon when there are so many problems to fix here on Earth? Artemis 2 mission pilot Victor Glover explained Thursday from cislunar space. Reading time 2 minutes Amid rising geopolitical instability, NASA chose to send four astronauts back to ...

The Artemis II crew broke the record for the farthest distance from Earth that any human crew has ever traveled.

The Artemis II crew got the green light to bring iPhone 17s aboard the spacecraft months ago and had them in hand during their pre-flight quarantine. Smartphones have left Earth's orbit before, including on the 2021 Inspiration4 SpaceX flight and the last mission of the American Space Shuttle program.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s launch weather team was monitoring conditions for Artemis II on Wednesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral The launch weather team reports conditions to the launch director, who will then determine whether ...

The sense I had was the sense of fragility and feeling small, infinitesimally small, but yet this very powerful feeling as a human being,” the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen said