RISE, designed by Lucas Ye of California, went viral on social floating around with Artemis II crew. Plushie was inspired by "Earthrise" from Apollo 8.

Staff at a Welsh laser company are "over the moon" after their technology was used in the Artemis II space mission. The four astronauts on board the Orion spacecraft achieved a historic lunar flyby that saw them travel further from Earth than any other humans.

The Artemis II mission is expected to splash down off the coast of California on Friday night around 8:00 p.m., after successfully orbiting the Moon and breaking the record for the furthest from Earth humans have ever gone (their orbit was higher up than past moon missions,

The Artemis II crew's nine-day moon mission set a record for the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth. Here's a look at the key moments.

Reid Wiseman, the NASA Artemis 2 commander, was supposed to leave a little plushie moon toy — called Rise — for later retrieval from his Integrity Orion spacecraft. But after 10 days floating alongside the mascot to the moon and back again, Wiseman had a different thought about that procedure.

This week, we got a different moon—the Artemis moon. The moon captured by America’s first mission there in generations is not the moon I look for every time I step outside. It is not the moon I grew up with or the one my parents learned about during the Apollo missions.

Look up at a full moon on a clear night and you are staring at a face that has been punched, gouged, and battered for 4 billion years. Those dark patches are vast basins blasted open by impacts so colossal they reshaped a world.

The president has been mostly open about his desire to plaster "TRUMP" on any structure he can, from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., to Pennsylvania Station in