Artemis II didn't land on the moon, and many are wondering what the point of the space mission was in NASA's broader space planning.

Here's what to know about Artemis II, the first time NASA sent humans to the moon and why some people (ahem, Kim Kardashian) believe it never happened.

On May 25 1961, before a joint session of Congress, President John F. Kennedy committed the US to the goal, before the decade was out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the ...

NASA’s Artemis II program is part of a new global space race. This time, world powers have much bigger ambitions.

Artemis II is an amazing feat of science. It is also part of a new space race against China that may cost us $105 billion. Is it worth it? Tell us.

The data pipeline from NASA’s Artemis II mission opened to full blast a few hours after looping behind the far side of the Moon on Monday night, when the Orion spacecraft established a laser ...

These aren’t official photos of the moon from the Artemis II mission. A NASA spokesperson said the only official images from the mission are published on NASA.gov. PolitiFact found that some of the ...

Humans have not visited the moon since 1972 − but Artemis II got us one step closer. NASA's Artemis II, the first crewed moon mission in 54 years, launched April 1, 2026, from Florida, sending three ...