Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide (13 m). Credit: Space.com | animation: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve ...

NASA's Artemis II mission, carrying three American and one Canadian astronaut, has successfully begun its four-day journey to the moon, marking the first crewed lunar orbit mission since the Apollo ...

Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, left, and Commander Reid Wiseman steer the Orion spacecraft during a demonstration on Flight Day 1 in space. Credit: NASA The tracker turns a complex deep space mission ...

Th Artemis II mission will take four astronauts thousands of miles beyond the moon before the Orion spacecraft makes a U-turn and heads back to Earth on an approximately 10-day journey. The launch ...

The Artemis II astronauts are returning to Earth after a historic lunar flyby. The four-person crew became the first humans in over 50 years to travel near the moon. During the mission, the astronauts ...

A research paper published on March 25, 2026, in the journal Science Advances identifies a previously unrecognized zone of reduced galactic cosmic ray exposure in the space between Earth and the Moon.

NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon. The public can follow the mission in real time using NASA's Artemis Real-time Orbit Website (AROW). This ...

By Joey Roulette HOUSTON, April 8 (Reuters) - Four astronauts traveling back to Earth from the far side of the moon on NASA's Artemis II mission spoke of their emotions as they wrapped up the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch works in the dark in the Orion spacecraft cabin during NASA's moon mission. - NASA From the ...

This story was updated April 2, 2026, to note that after orbiting Earth, Artemis II is now on the trajectory that will take it around the moon. For the first time in more than half a century, humans ...

Canada’s Jeremy Hansen and his U.S. crewmates – mission commander Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover – splashed ...