NASA's Artemis II mission reached a critical milestone this week as teams conducted a wet dress rehearsal of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft during an unusually intense blast of cold air surged across Florida, delivering record-breaking low temperatures to the Sunshine State.

After pre-launch testing revealed rocket issues, NASA has delayed the Artemis II launch until March. Here's the latest.

During the two-day dress rehearsal, running through launch-day procedures, crews found a liquid hydrogen leak in part of the rocket.

NASA has released an animation detailing the Artemis II mission, a crewed test flight that will validate the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft for deep-space travel beyond low Earth orbit.

NASA is now targeting March 2026 for Artemis II — the first crewed lunar mission since 1972. It will set the stage for Artemis III’s planned moon landing in 2027.

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

Artemis 2 is NASA's first manned mission to fly by the moon since the Apollo era. In the Artemis II mission astronauts will orbit the moon in Orion on top of SLS after a successful wet dress rehearsal in February 2026 at Kennedy Space Center.

A small army of 34 international partners will use their own gear to track the Artemis II mission as it goes to the Moon and back.

NASA released a selfie taken by the Orion capsule and close-up photos of the moon's crater-marked landscape as the spacecraft continues on the Artemis 1 mission, a 25-and-a-half day journey that will take it more than 40,000 miles beyond the far side of ...

NASA, which has waited more than 50 years to launch another human moon mission, will wait at least another month. Here's the latest on Artemis 2.