Over the span of a few short months in 2026, NASA’s Artemis III mission lost its original purpose, but gained a crew and some controversy over its composition. In February 2026, as its predecessor ...

NASA's next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, on Pad 39B ahead of the Artemis II mission launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, ...

NASA announced the four astronauts that will join the next Artemis mission — a test flight vital to putting astronauts back ...

The crew traveled aboard the Orion capsule (that they dubbed “Integrity”), which reentered Earth’s atmosphere before deploying parachutes and landing in a designated recovery zone, where teams quickly ...

Nearly three weeks ago, four astronauts returned from the first mission near the moon in more than half a century. Up next, the astronauts – NASA's Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as ...

NASA named the four astronauts it plans to send on the Artemis III mission Tuesday, the next major step in its return-to-the-moon program.

A memo issued by NASA Office of Inspector General highlights huge cost increases and extended timelines for Artemis program ...

If the pending Artemis II mission is successful, it will not just send Americans around the moon and back for the first time in more than half a century—it will send them further than any human being ...

The Artemis program is becoming one of NASA's most important efforts for future moon colonization and long-term moon exploration. Unlike earlier lunar missions focused mainly on short visits, Artemis ...

Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. NASA has announced ...

The USA TODAY Network has learned two US lawmakers plan to introduce legislation nominating the Artemis II astronauts for a ...