The Artemis II lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and is being viewed as a major milestone in the US space agency's effort to send the astronauts back to the lunar surface.

The NASA flight is hours away from parachuting into the Pacific Ocean near San Diego, concluding a journey that sent humans ...

Four astronauts — including a Canadian — aboard the Orion spacecraft lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:35 p.m. eastern time.

There was giddy euphoria at the Kennedy Space Center after the successful and spectacular launch, writes the BBC's Pallab Ghosh.

Final checks are being completed for NASA's Artemis 2 mission that will take astronauts further into space than ever before ...

Nasa’s first manned Moon mission in more than 50 years has blasted off, in a mission that will see four astronauts travel deeper into space than any human has gone before. Carrying three Americans and ...

Four astronauts have strapped into their seats as crews made final preparations for a historic lunar odyssey that will see ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Artemis 2 lunar mission lifts off from Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida (Jim Watson) (Jim Watson/AFP ...

Nasa’s moon rocket Artemis II launched on Wednesday evening (US time), carrying astronauts to the moon for the first time in almost 54 years. The launch marks the first time since the Apollo 17 missio ...

For the first time in nearly 54 years, humans are on their way to the lunar surface, courtesy of Nasa’s Artemis II mission. This is part of the US space agency’s larger goal of establishing a permanen ...

ARTEMIS 2 is set to blast off from Kennedy Space Center on a 10-day mission around the moon. Here we take a look at the financial figures involved in sending humans as far from the earth as we ...

NASA’s Artemis II Space rocket is set to launch on Wednesday evening. (NASA/Bill Ingalls via SWNS) By Dean Murray Ready for its close-up. Media were seen aiming their remote cameras at the rocket set ...