While a new milestone for NASA, the Artemis II mission won’t break the record for the farthest that a human-rated spacecraft has ever traveled into space: In 2022, the same Orion module — with no astronauts aboard — had traveled 268,563 miles from Earth during an uncrewed Artemis I test mission around the moon.

NASA’s Artemis II mission is on the way to the moon on a flight that will ultimately help inform long-term space exploration, including on the lunar surface itself. AVATAR uses organs-on-a-chip, fluid-filled devices,

As NASA prepares for its next mission to the moon, one Atlanta university is drawing attention for its growing role in space exploration.

Artemis II, NASA's first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years, represents a shift from short visits toward sustained exploration, where understanding lunar geology and resources becomes as important as the engineering that gets astronauts there.

It's a carousel of work to get a rocket to space, and with Artemis II's recent moon mission, the Johnson Space Center in Houston is its launchpad.

About 75 space fans gathered at U of A’s Flandrau Science Center to watch the Artemis launch. Flandrau projected NASA’s video feed in the Center’s planetarium.

NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS),

NASA's latest photos from the Artemis II mission show Earth in stunning details as the astronauts near a milestone distance of 100,000 miles away.