The world has achieved great feats in lunar exploration, including humans landing on the Moon's surface. However, it's been more than 50 years since the Apollo 17 astronauts visited Earth's neighbor in 1972.

NASA is entering the tightest stretch yet before its first crewed lunar voyage of the Artemis era, with Artemis 2 now poised to fly astronauts around the moon roughly one month from now if final tests hold.

NASA has set a date for a return to the Moon, as part of the U.S. space agency’s ambitious Artemis program.

For years, the Moon has sat quietly in the background of space news, always present but rarely urgent. That has begun to change. In early 2026, NASA p.

"It’s amazing to think that this thing I have been working on in various capacities for the last eight years is about to send four astronauts around the moon for the first time in a half-century.”

NASA's Artemis II mission, set to launch on Feb. 6, will send four astronauts farther from Earth than any human has traveled in decades

Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that money would come on top of NASA's existing budget and would be spread out over five years.

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar wind and our planet's magnetic field, upending a 20-year-old theory based on NASA's Apollo lunar samples.

ROCKET WATCHERS THROUGHOUT THE DAY ON WESH TWO. AND WE’RE JUST ABOUT EIGHT MONTHS AWAY FROM THE NEXT MISSION TO THE MOON. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? ARTEMIS TWO CREW, WHO YOU SEE RIGHT HERE, WILL BLAST OFF NEXT APRIL TO ORBIT THE MOON AND GET AMERICA ONE STEP ...