The Artemis II mission is slingshotting around the moon today, and the images being returned from NASA's Orion ship are exquisite. Here's just a few of the latest, showing the moon eclipsing the sun.

As Trump escalates the war in Iran, threatening that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” and probably launching the world into nuclear fallout, at least, in the brief 4.5 billion-year journey ...

Space exploration is entering a new phase with the Artemis 2 mission, which will allow astronauts to fly by the Moon for the first time in over fifty years. This preparatory mission paves the way for ...

For the first time, humans have glimpsed the entire far side of the moon with their own eyes — and their photos are beginning to come in. In what was the most highly anticipated moment of the Artemis ...

The dark side of the moon just got a little bit less mysterious. Artemis II astronauts on their 10-day mission to travel farther away from Earth than anybody has ever before got to see a ...

Sure, of course. Indeed, they viewed a kind of eclipse that cannot be seen from Earth. Solar eclipses occur during new Moon, when, in the Earth's perspective, the near side of the Moon happens to be ...

After traveling a record distance from Earth, the Artemis II crew saw incredible things. “This continues to be unreal,” pilot Victor Glover said. Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window ...

The last time human beings took pictures in the vicinity of the moon the world was an awfully analog place. Apollo astronauts would hand carry cameras into space and hand deliver them back to Earth, ...