The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

NASA is going back to the Moon! We’ll follow the crew of Artemis II every step of the way. It’s not everyday that humans make a trip around the Moon — in fact, most of us weren’t alive the last time ...

This story was updated April 2, 2026, to note that after orbiting Earth, Artemis II is now on the trajectory that will take it around the moon. For the first time in more than half a century, humans ...

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, are on a historic flight around the Moon and back. On Monday, April 6, 2026, these ...

The Artemis 2 crew just sent back a new image from space that will join Apollo 8's Earthrise as one of the most iconic pictures from human space exploration. On Christmas Eve, 1968, during a live ...

Lots of excitement for space bubbled up in spring 2026. The Artemis II mission took a crew of four on a flyby around the Moon ...

The Moon is starting to reappear.

June’s strawberry moon rose worldwide on June 29 to become the first full moon of summer, the lowest-hanging of the year and the second-smallest.

Set to lift off this week, the NASA flight will take astronauts around the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years. If all goes to plan, as soon as tomorrow, NASA will launch four people on a ...

More than 50 years after humanity's last Moon landing, a new space race is underway. This time, the goal isn't just to plant ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—The US military has always been part of NASA’s human spaceflight program. The first astronauts were nearly all military pilots, and two of the four crew members set to ...