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The Artemis 2 astronauts are the first people to journey toward the moon since 1972. Why has it taken us more than half a century to go back?

NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission will get a maximum of 252,757 miles (406,773 kilometers) from Earth on April 6, breaking the mark set by Apollo 13 in April 1970.

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas 5 rocket sits on Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral at sunset. This will be ULA’s fifth launch for the Amazon Leo broadband satellite constellation.

United Launch Alliance launched its latest Atlas 5 rocket, which carried a batch of 29 Amazon Leo satellites to low Earth orbit. The mission was the largest and heaviest payload carried to orbit by an Atlas 5 rocket to date, according to ULA.

From the ground to low Earth orbit, the Artemis 2 launch became a shared moment across the planet and beyond.

Venus returns as a brilliant evening star in 2026, with dazzling conjunctions, peak brightness and stunning views through the summer.

Data from Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander casts doubt on the decades-old view of the moon as divided between a hotter near side and cooler far side.

An Atlas V launched 29 of Amazon's internet satellites — collectively the heaviest load the rocket has ever lofted — on Saturday morning (April 4).

The Artemis 2 astronauts snapped a gorgeous photo of their home planet recently as they sped away from it and toward the moon.

Week in images: 30 March - 03 April 2026

NASA's Artemis Program seeks to place American boots close to the moon's south pole.

Love Doctor Who? Then you'll be over the moon that two previously lost episodes, The Nightmare Begins and Devil's Planet, have been recovered. Here's how to watch them wherever you are.

New observations reveal that permanently shadowed regions at the lunar poles might contain less water ice than astronauts were hoping for.

Astronomers have discovered that rapidly spinning extreme dead stars or pulsars push it to the edge, blasting out radio signals from their extremities.

After an action-packed first two days, Flight Day 3 may bring a more relaxed pace for the Artemis 2 moon astronauts.

Arcturus, the Spring Star, is on its way up in the east. Vega, the Summer Star, rises later in the evening. Jupiter shines high toward the southwest.

Image: In an unusual perspective for an Earth-observing satellite, the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captures this image of Earth’s only natural satellite.

Image: A pair of planet-forming discs

The DJI Avata 360 is DJI’s first 360-degree drone that can be flown like a camera or FPV (first-person view) drone using a motion controller and DJI FPV goggles.

Artemis 2's Orion capsule aced a critical engine burn this evening (April 2) that sent it from Earth orbit outward toward the moon.