A conspiracy theorist claims NASA’s Artemis mission was fake, but his main evidence is not rocket data, physics, or mission telemetry. It is the astronauts’ smiles after splashdown. He calls it “duper ...

Four of Earth's own have returned home after a journey to outer space. The astronauts from NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 splashed down into the Atlantic off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, early Monday ...

The Orion capsule punched through Earth’s atmosphere trailing a sheath of superheated plasma, then drifted beneath three red-and-white parachutes before hitting the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at 5:07 ...

NASA's Artemis II mission came to a successful close Friday evening as the Orion spacecraft splashed down off the coast of San Diego, ending a nearly 700,000-mile historic journey around the moon and ...

Madison Tuttle, A&S '21 (MA), stood on the deck of a Navy ship, watching with bated breath for the Artemis II astronauts to reenter Earth's atmosphere and hurtle toward the Pacific Ocean. Tuttle ...

UPDATE for 9 p.m. ET: NASA's Orion spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth to return its Artemis 2 astronauts to Earth. See video and photos of the Artemis 2 splashdown in our wrap story. NASA's ...

Every crewed mission to the moon starts with fire and ends with water. Artemis II was no different. The spacecraft and crew began their journey on April 1, under the power of six rocket engines ...

The Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to the moon in over 50 years, is preparing to conclude its journey. The crew made history with the first woman, Black man, and Canadian to fly near the ...