Reentry is one of the most intense phases of space missions, and the return of the Artemis astronauts will be a test of their spacecraft’s heat shield.

Space exploration is a fascinating human activity, but at times it does come across as strange. Like when NASA rocket scientists surrounded the Artemis II Service Module with huge speakers and blasted sound at the thing. The European Service Module by its ...

A former NASA astronaut says unresolved Orion heat shield damage could threaten Artemis II as the crew splashes down Friday.

Artemis II will carry a four-person crew on a 10-day journey around the moon.

The European Service Module-2 and Orion crew module adapter for the Artemis II Orion spacecraft was moved into the Final Assembly and System Testing (FAST) cell inside NASA’s Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

Artemis II’s astronauts closed out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy. It was a dramatic grand finale to a mission that revealed not only swaths of the lunar far side never seen before by human eyes,