As humanity prepares to land on the moon in future Artemis missions, NASA's combustion tests will be critical to assuring astronaut safety.

NASA says of Apophis passing by that it is likely "an event like this has not happened at any time in recorded human history."

Now that the Artemis II astronauts are safely home from their moon mission, NASA is investigating how well its spacecraft's heat shield protected the crew during their return.

NASA's Artemis II crew has successfully returned to Earth after a 10-day mission — the furthest humans have traveled from Earth since Apollo 17 in 1972 — bringing back critical data on deep-space radiation,

People on the ground in the Eastern Hemisphere will be able to observe the asteroid with their own eyes, weather permitting, according to NASA.

RAVENSWOOD, W.Va. (WSAZ) - From the outside, it may look like just another plant— but inside Constellium in Ravenswood, they made aluminum that helped NASA’s Artemis II mission.

The space rock is expected to make its closest approach at around 848,000 miles from the Earth, according to NASA.

Republican Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) on Sunday criticized the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to NASA. “I think it would be a mistake to put money only in the missions related to exploration and not into science and the others.

The two instructors who trained the Artemis II crew to take out-of-this-world photos during the NASA lunar flyby mission said they were impressed by the photography from the four astronauts. NASA photography and video subject matter experts Paul Reichert and Katrina Willoughby spoke to Reuters on Tuesday (April 14) about the crew's photography training.