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17 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: April 21, 2026.
The four-person NASA crew traveled 252,756 miles from Earth — farther than any humans since 1972 — completing the first crewed lunar mission in more than five decades.
The four-person NASA crew traveled 252,756 miles from Earth — 4,111 miles beyond the Apollo 13 record — and photographed the lunar far side that no human eyes had ever directly seen.
Artemis II crew completes successful lunar flyby mission, setting stage for debates over next steps in America's moon exploration program.
The four-person crew made an emotional reunion with families in Houston following their successful lunar flyby, the first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo 17.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen returned Thursday after a 10-day mission that took humans farther from Earth than any crew since Gene Cernan left the Moon 54 years ago.
A mission that took four astronauts farther than any human has ever traveled in the history of mankind has made people feel a little trippy.
WatchCommander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen returned safely to Earth on Friday evening, completing the first crewed lunar orbit in more than 50 years.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and CSA's Jeremy Hansen reached 252,756 miles from Earth — farther than any humans in history — before beginning their return journey with a Pacific splashdown scheduled for Friday.
The administration seeks significant reductions to the space agency's funding even as the historic lunar mission progresses successfully behind the Moon.
The four-member Artemis II crew, now closer to the Moon than Earth on Flight Day 3, are sending back deep-space photographs of Earth while preparing for a historic lunar flyby and a record-breaking distance from home.
NASA's boldest mission in generations sends four astronauts toward lunar orbit in major milestone for space exploration.
WatchFour astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft "Integrity" successfully lifted off from Kennedy Space Center, beginning a 10-day mission that includes a lunar flyby and a record-setting journey 4,700 miles beyond the Moon.
Years of testing, advanced emergency systems, and sophisticated sensors safeguard crew members during humanity's return to lunar vicinity after five decades.
WatchFour astronauts will fly 450,000 miles around the Moon and back starting Wednesday, ending a 54-year hiatus on crewed lunar missions. An 80 percent favorable weather forecast greeted the crew as they entered quarantine at Kennedy Space Center.
Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen are days from liftoff on a 10-day, 1.3-million-mile mission that will send the first woman and first Black astronaut beyond low Earth orbit, surpassing Apollo 13's record for the greatest distance from Earth.
With the SLS rocket on the pad at Kennedy Space Center, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen are five days from a historic April 1 launch around the Moon.
After an 11-hour crawl from the Vehicle Assembly Building, the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule arrived at Pad 39B Friday with four astronauts in quarantine — on track for a launch that will send humans farther from Earth than any mission in more than 50 years.