The ​return to Earth put the Orion spacecraft through a critical test of its heat shield, which sustained an unexpected level ...

Follow live coverage of NASA's Artemis II mission splashdown. Get the latest news and see what time to watch as astronauts ...

Artemis II also set a new record for the farthest distance traveled by humans in space, reaching 252,756 miles (406,771 km) ...

The last time NASA and the Defense Department teamed up for a lunar crew’s reentry was Apollo 17 in 1972. Artemis II was ...

NASA's gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, dubbed Integrity, parachuted gently into the sea off the Southern California coast ...

Artemis 2 has come home. The four Artemis 2 astronauts splashed down off the coast of San Diego this evening (April 10), ...

NASA's Artemis II astronauts returned to Earth with a splashdown landing in the Pacific Ocean after making a high-speed ...

The NASA flight is hours away from parachuting into the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, concluding a journey that sent humans ...

Avcoat is ablative, meaning the material is designed to char and erode in a controlled manner as the spacecraft comes roaring ...

In Verne’s novel, the moonshot is explicitly proposed as a nationalist project, even as it also becomes a pinnacle of human achievement that unifies the world. The speech in which it is proposed is ...

NASA will stream video of the spacecraft’s return to Earth starting at 6:30 p.m. Friday. You can watch it on NASA’s YouTube ...

As NASA’s Artemis II mission prepares to return to Earth on Friday, April 10, a Hamilton High School grad will be monitoring ...