Four astronauts are preparing to fly around the Moon on a roughly 10-day mission, and for the entire trip, teams on the ground will be watching the Sun as closely as they watch the spacecraft. NASA ...

As four astronauts travel around the moon on NASA's Artemis II mission, they will venture beyond Earth's protective magnetic field. The crew's spacecraft, Orion, will carry and protect them as they ...

With the launch of Artemis II planned in a few weeks, NASA is ready to monitor the sun during the mission in order to protect ...

Retired astronaut Butch Wilmore reflected on the thoughts he had when he and former colleague Sunita Williams were stranded in space for nearly 300 days in June 2024.

NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore talks to PEOPLE about his near-death experience on the Starliner mission, which left him ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.(AP) — An ailing astronaut returned to Earth with three others on Thursday, ending their space station mission more than a month early in NASA’s first medical evacuation.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who traveled to the International Space Station last June for what was initially a one-week mission, are now preparing for their return home after ...

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams prepared the International Space Station for the addition a new solar array ...

NASA plans to launch four astronauts on a long-awaited trip around the moon as early as April 1, the agency announced.

NASA is sending the first Black and first female astronauts to the moon in an upcoming launch, marking the first journey to ...

NASA is weighing changes to its Artemis lunar program that would insert a new practice mission after Artemis II and shift the first crewed Moon landing to a later mission in the sequence, according to ...