On Wednesday, the crew of NASA's Artemis II could blast off on a mission around the moon and back. No astronaut has ventured out to the moon since the 1970s.

But Artemis 2 most closely resembles a mission known as Artemis 8, which on Dec. 21, 1968 sent three NASA astronauts on a six ...

Four astronauts are set to lift off Wednesday on a journey around the moon — the first such mission in more than 50 years.

NASA's Artemis II astronauts — three space station veterans and a Canadian rookie — stand out even in an astronaut corps full ...

It’s about more than just beating China. As a space lawyer puts it, a Moon base would come with strategic, economic and ...

The people who toiled night and day to put astronauts on the moon during Apollo are thrilled that NASA is finally going back.

The mission around the moon is an elaborate dress rehearsal to test systems and components, some built by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, for future plans to establish a lunar base ...

As four astronauts get set to blast off on humanity’s first trip to the moon in more than half a century, comparisons between ...

NASA's Artemis II mission is expected to last about 10 days, sending four astronauts on a high-speed journey around the moon ...

Polling has consistently found that most people would prefer NASA spend money on things like monitoring climate change and averting asteroid collisions rather than human spaceflight.

In only a few days, humanity will be reunited with the moon for the first time in 53 years. Artemis II is a NASA mission that ...

At the end of a long day on Tuesday, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman looked down at a table littered with microphones and ...