When NASA’s Orion spacecraft swung behind the Moon on April 6, 2026, the Sun disappeared. For roughly an hour, the four astronauts aboard, commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, and mission ...

The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey of the moon Monday, including the rarely glimpsed lunar far side, which always faces away ...

NASA's Artemis III astronauts plan to carry out rendezvous and docking procedures with commercial moon landers being built by SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NBC News; NASA NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years, has been a feast for the ...

After months of anticipation, the monumental 10-day Artemis II mission, which sent four astronauts on a record-breaking flyby of the moon, has concluded. It’s a “mission well accomplished,” said NASA ...

China launched its crewed Shenzhou-23 spacecraft and eased it into a successful docking with a space station early Monday as part of Beijing's ambitions to send humans to the moon by 2030, state media ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Never-before-glimpsed views of the moon’s far side. Check. Total solar eclipse gracing the lunar scene. Check. New distance record for humanity. Check. Wall Street futures rise, oil ...

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On a day the crew of Artemis II broke the record set by Apollo 13 for farthest distance from Earth ever flown by humans, they made a request to name two newly identified craters: one to honor their ...