The Artemis II astronauts are officially on their way back home to Earth after their groundbreaking journey, becoming the first humans in more than 50 years to travel near Earth's celestial neighbor.

The president first touted the success of a rescue effort that secured two crew members who had ejected from an F-15 over Iran. The president stated that the fighter jet was brought down by an Iranian ...

The asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk injured around 1,500 people, damaged thousands of buildings, and exposed an uncomfortable truth: scientists completely missed it, even as they were ...

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft, during a mission known as DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), intentionally impacted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos to modify its trajectory. Photo courtesy ...

There could be a catastrophic threat lurking in space right now. We might not know until it’s too late. Near Earth, there are likely more than 25,000 asteroids large enough to level a city, according ...

You don't have to be an astronaut to follow NASA's Artemis II mission. Artemis II sent four astronauts on a roughly 10-day flight around the moon — the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972 ...

Artemis II successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday night, April 1, 2026, and is headed towards the moon. Four astronauts are aboard: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, ...

For the first time since 1972, astronauts are on their way into deep space as part of NASA’s Artemis II mission. The mission sees the Orion spacecraft carrying four astronauts to the moon, where they ...

Artemis II successfully launched from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday night, April 1, 2026, and is headed towards the moon. Four astronauts are aboard: Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, ...

It’s the stuff of movies: an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, and we have to do something to stop it—or die. Disturbingly this scenario is also the stuff of the actual universe.