But Apollo 13 was never supposed to set a record. The crew were just trying to get home, and their only way back to Earth was ...

Artemis II is expected to break the record for the farthest distance humans have travelled from Earth.

Artemis II astronauts will be looking at the Moon from a “unique perspective”, as they will be passing by at a much higher ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission will launch four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the moon and back—the first time humans have ...

NASA’s Artemis II mission is the first crewed deep-space flight since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Before the 32-story SLS rocket's liftoff, launch director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson told the crew, "Good luck, Godspeed ...

NASA's Apollo 8 mission was the first to orbit the moon. No US spacecraft has returned to the moon since 1972, but that's all ...

Before reaching Mars, NASA wants a pit stop at the darker, colder side of the Moon — “the lunar South Pole” — and the Artemis ...

NASA is preparing for Artemis II, which will send four astronauts around the Moon. The mission will test Orion’s life-support ...

NASA's Artemis II faced a planned communication blackout for nearly 40 minutes as Orion passed behind the Moon.

Inside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched. The restricted lab is home to hundreds of pounds of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts close to a ...

The United States is preparing to send humans back to the Moon under NASA's Artemis programme, ending a 54-year gap since the last Apollo astronauts left the lunar surface in 1972.