The Artemis II astronauts are tidying up their lunar cruiser for Friday's “fireball” return to Earth.

The Artemis II astronauts are chatting it up with their friends aboard the International Space Station.

The Artemis II astronauts are now forever intertwined with Apollo 8.

The Artemis II crew is expected to surpass the record previously set by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 for the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth.

Visitors arrive hours early to secure viewing spots, saying in-person experience can’t be matched on TV.

The Artemis program to land the first woman on the moon, following the path of many trailblazing women in space.

With the countdown underway for a highly anticipated rocket launch, crowds are already gathering along Florida’s Space Coast, hoping to secure the best possible view.

Astronauts aboard the upcoming Artemis II mission will travel beyond Earth’s protective magnetic field, exposing them to what experts call galactic cosmic radiation, according to experts.

Final checks underway to make sure the Artemis II mission is a go.

NASA’s shift from Apollo to Artemis signals a new era of moon exploration centered on inclusion, sustainability and a long-term human presence beyond Earth.

NASA is heading back to the Moon. But despite advances in computing and manufacturing, America’s space agency is still relying – in some key areas – on decades-old hardware and tech.

Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.

A total lunar eclipse will soon redden the moon as Earth moves directly between the sun and moon and casts its shadow across the lunar surface.

Authorities say the bodies of eight backcountry skiers have been found and one remains missing after an avalanche near Lake Tahoe in California.

NASA’s associate administrator, the agency’s highest ranking civil servant, says there’s no pressure to launch a long-awaited crewed mission around the moon following a new delay to the lunar fly-by.

Artemis II will send four astronauts around the moon in the first crewed flight test of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion Spacecraft.

NASA has run into exasperating fuel leaks in a make-or-break test of the moon rocket that's supposed to send astronauts on a lunar fly-around.

A 31-year-old man is accused of trying to sexually batter an employee at a Cocoa Beach hotel, according to police.

Giant halo appears around the moon.

This supermoon was extra special — at just 221,823 miles from Earth, it appeared noticeably larger and brighter than an average full moon, which sits about 238,900 miles away.

Get ready, sky-watchers as the second supermoon of 2025 is set to light up our skies in November.

October 2025 brings an exciting lineup of celestial events, ideal for skywatchers in Central Florida.

This weekend, a “supermoon” is set to rise in the sky, though you probably wouldn’t know it if you went to look.

Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in has called his bribery indictment “unjust” and accused prosecutors of abusing their power in what he called a politically motivated investigation.

April starts off with the conjunction of our moon and Mars in the evening sky.

A controversial South Korean church with powerful political connections faces dissolution in Japan after a Tokyo court issued an order to revoke its legal status.

A private lunar lander is no longer working after landing sideways in a crater near the moon's south pole.

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons on the far side.

SpaceX is ramping up for a mid-week launch of NASA’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 from Kennedy Space Center, according to a news release.

As a young woman, Maleah Joi Moon used to join the crowds outside Broadway stage doors after shows to cheer the stars.

Astronomers say better catch this week's supermoon.

Scientists say a celestial object discovered decades ago is actually twins orbiting each other.

Earth will have a temporary “mini moon” for two months.

Look up!

Saturday marks the 55th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

Scientists have confirmed a cave on the moon, not far from where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed 55 years ago.

NASA picked three companies to develop a terrain vehicle for the moon Wednesday, including the company that sent a lunar lander to the moon in February.

To some, Leap Day is just a bonus day on the calendar. For me, Haley Coomes, it means a little bit more.

NASA and Intuitive Machines held a news conference Wednesday afternoon to discuss the Odysseus lunar lander, framing its mission as an incredible success in a pathfinder sense and glowing with optimism for what’s now planned.

A toppled moon lander is still beaming back pictures, as its nears the final hours of its life.

A private U.S. lunar lander is expected to stop working Tuesday, its mission cut short after landing sideways near the south pole of the moon.

Japan’s first moon lander responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it has survived a second freezing weekslong lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Monday.

A U.S. company says its moon lander is on its side near the lunar south pole.

A private U.S. lunar lander is in orbit around the moon, a day before it will attempt to land on the surface.

A Japan space agency official says an unmanned spacecraft that landed on the moon last month has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon.

A Japanese moon explorer is up and running Monday after several tense days without the sunlight it needs to generate power.

Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon’s surface it was aiming for in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system — although it appears to be sitting upside-down.

A NASA news conference precedes a ULA launch scheduled at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Concerns about SpaceX’s progress in developing its Starship mega rocket will likely mean that the Artemis III moon landing won’t happen in 2025 as targeted, according to a new report by the Government Accounting Office.

Katie Moon and Nina Kennedy decided to split gold in the pole vault after finishing in a tie at world championships.

India became the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole on Wednesday — a historic voyage to uncharted territory that scientists believe could hold vital reserves of frozen water, and a technological triumph for the world’s most populous nation.

Here are the celestial events visible in the night and morning sky during July.

About 20,000 eclipse chasers have witnessed a rare solar eclipse plunge part of Australia’s northwest coast into brief midday darkness under a cloudless sky.

From Artemis to Axiom, we take a look at 5 launches.

NASA’s Orion capsule is back from the moon.

NASA is set to bring its latest update on the Artemis I mission on Monday as the mission is now at its midway point.

Orion, which launched into space atop NASA’s mega rocket over a week ago, is preparing to enter into distant retrograde around the moon Friday afternoon.

NASA's Orion capsule has reached the moon, whipping around the far side and passing within about 80 miles.

A space capsule hurtles toward the moon.

NASA announced on Sunday that the mission management team polled “go” for Orion’s flyby past the moon.

NASA officials hold a news conference at Johnson Space Center in Houston to discuss what the Orion capsule has next ahead of it.

A pair of dogs gifted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2018 are now mired in a South Korean political row, with the country’s former president blaming his conservative successor for a lack of support as he gave the animals up.

South Korea’s former defense minister and coast guard chief have been arrested over their alleged involvement in covering up facts and distorting the circumstances surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official in 2020 near the rivals’ tense sea border.

Hurricane Ian struck a large swath of Florida on Wednesday, inundating coastal areas with strong winds and high water.

Anne Moon of Moon Golf purchased more than 250 golf bags with individual school logos for every public school in Brevard County.

NASA said the latest hydrogen leak on its Artemis I moon rocket should now be fixed, but mission managers still have to test it and that’s why the launch team needs the additional time.

NASA is replacing leaky seals in its moon rocket at the pad in hopes of launching it on its first test flight by the end of this month.

Axiom Space was chose by NASA to design its moonwalking spacesuit system for the Artemis III mission.

No new launch date has been announced yet as NASA crews try to find a way to stop the leak. The rocket will be rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building, but it’s not known when.

Fuel leaks forced NASA to scrub its first attempt at launching the Space Launch System rocket for the Artemis I mission.

NASA is set to attempt the first flight of its behemoth Space Launch System moon rocket Monday morning from Kennedy Space Center.

Ahead of Monday's Artemis I mission rocket launch, NASA has provided a list of "the ultimate personal tour guide" tips for those planning to watch the historic launch.

The Moon is finally in reach again for humankind. At least that’s the goal for NASA’s Artemis I, which is set for launch from Cape Canaveral on Monday.

A rocket body first spotted by astronomers on a collision course with the moon late last year is what NASA said left a new impact site on the lunar surface almost four months ago.

NASA officials held a teleconference Friday to talk about what’s next for the Artemis I moon mission, forecasting the first flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket no earlier than in late August.

NASA says it has finished testing its huge moon rocket.

NASA has fueled its huge moon rocket for the first time and completed a countdown test despite a fuel line leak.

The Strawberry Supermoon, or June’s full moon, will shine in the night sky through the middle of this week.

The moon, Earth and sun are putting on a show tonight with the first total lunar eclipse visible from Florida in more than three years.

This is going to be cool!

The leaders of the rival Koreas have exchanged letters expressing hope for improved bilateral relations, which have plummeted amid a freeze in nuclear negotiations and North Korea’s accelerating weapons development.

The Biden Administration is requesting $26 billion for NASA in 2023, up $2 billion from the previous year. How much money NASA actually gets will be decided by Congress.

NASA is opening competition for private companies to build the landers for missions that follow.

A Lakeland man scratched his way to $5 million.

NASA is preparing to roll out its Space Launch System rocket this week for a critical test of its engine.

The moon will be hit by a powerful punch.

The moon is about to get walloped by a big piece of space junk.

A piece of a rocket is expected to collide with the moon in a few days.

The February full moon is known as the Snow Moon for obvious reasons as heavy snow typically falls across the country.

A portion of a SpaceX rocket that launched from Cape Canaveral in February 2015 is expected to slam into the moon sometime in the next several weeks, according to reports from several media outlets.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in says he will pardon his chief conservative rival and predecessor, Park Geun-hye, who is serving a lengthy prison term for bribery and other crimes.

South Korea’s president says he’ll keep striving to promote peace with North Korea through dialogue until the end of his term next May, after Pyongyang raised animosities with a resumption of provocative weapons tests.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in again pushed for peace and reconciliation with North Korea, amid recent missile testing on both ends of the peninsula.

Japanese space agency scientists say they plan to bring soil samples back from the Mars region ahead of the United States and China in hopes of finding clues to the planet’s origin and traces of possible life.

The first piece of hardware of the first rocket to fly humans around the moon in decades arrived in Florida this week.

The new audit found that spending on spacesuit development has more than doubled, however, the agency is nowhere near a final product ready for flight.

Jeff Bezos has lost his appeal of NASA's contract with Elon Musk's SpaceX to build its new moon lander.

NASA astronauts Raja Chair and Doug Wheelock explain how commercial missions are paving the way for the return to the moon.

Jeff Bezos is offering to waive $2 billion in payments if NASA selects Blue Origin's human moon lander for the Artemis program.

A "dramatic" surge in high-tide flooding is expected to hit U.S. coastal communities in the next decade, according to a new study by NASA.