When the Orion spacecraft carrying NASA’s Artemis II crew pierces Earth’s atmosphere on Friday evening, it will be traveling at nearly 25,000 mph. Within minutes, a precisely choreographed sequence of ...

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

The four crew of Artemis II returned to Earth on Friday with a splashdown landing in the Pacific Ocean to compete their 10-day mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 1.

"It's 13 minutes of things that have to go right," NASA said of the reentry and splashdown, the first with astronauts from the moon in over 50 years.

Crew members have left their Orion capsule after splashing down into the Pacific, ending Artemis II’s historic 10-day mission to the moon and back.

The Artemis II journey around the moon is coming to an end, here's how to watch the astronauts' reentry and splashdown this Friday.

Ahead of that, Nasa plans another crewed test mission, Artemis III, in 2027, to rehearse Orion's rendezvous and docking with one or more lunar landers and to try out the new spacesuits if they are ...

After making history on their journey around the moon, NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen have come home.

By Joey Roulette and Steve Gorman HOUSTON, April 10 (Reuters) - The Artemis II capsule and its four-member crew streaked through Earth's atmosphere and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on ...

NASA’s Artemis II splashed down safely after a 10-day journey around the moon — the first crewed lunar mission since 1972 and a step toward 2028’s lunar landing.

The Artemis II astronauts are returning home after a historic lunar flyby, setting a new record for human spaceflight.