The Artemis II mission is slingshotting around the moon today, and the images being returned from NASA's Orion ship are exquisite. Here's just a few of the latest, showing the moon eclipsing the sun.

New shades of brown and green in the rings of impact craters. Rugged terrain and long shadows along their rims. Earth rising over the moon’s horizon and the glow of lofted dust. These are observations ...

The dark side of the moon just got a little bit less mysterious. Artemis II astronauts on their 10-day mission to travel farther away from Earth than anybody has ever before got to see a ...

Later this year, a prototype telescope is slated to land on the moon. It could usher in a new era of lunar radio astronomy. The far side of the moon (shown in this image from Artemis II) is an ideal ...