While making history on the first human moon mission in more than 50 years, the Artemis 2 astronauts captured incredible pictures of our home planet.

A joint European-Chinese spacecraft blasted off into orbit Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and giant explosions of plasma shot out from the sun slam into Earth's magnetic shield ...

The Hubble Space Telescope still flies in Earth orbit, taking high-resolution photographs of stars, galaxies, nebula, asteroids, planets — pretty much anything astronomers decide merits Hubble’s time.

Photos of Earth taken by the Artemis 2 astronauts reveal their perspective as they zoom farther away from our home planet than any have gone before. Reading time 1 minute The Artemis 2 mission is now ...

METEOROLOGIST KEVIN SKARUPA EXPLAINS DIFFERENT TYPES OF ORBITS, WEATHER PERMITTING. NASA’S ARTEMIS TWO IS LIFTING OFF LATER THIS WEEK FOR A TEN DAY MISSION AROUND THE MOON. IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 20,000 ...

The Artemis II astronauts blastedtheir main engine Thursday evening to propel the Orion capsule out of Earth’s orbit and on to its next phase - a four-day journey toward the moon. The six-minute ...

The Artemis II astronauts broke out of Earth orbit and headed for the moon Thursday, firing their main engine for nearly six minutes to boost the ship's velocity to 24,500 mph, the speed required to ...