NASA Unveils 1st Earth Photos From Artemis II

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First Photos From the Artemis II Mission Show Earth in Ways Humans Haven’t Seen Since the Apollo Era
The windows on the Orion spacecraft are already dirty. The four astronauts aboard Artemis II spend so much time pressing their faces against the glass to stare back at their home planet that mission commander Reid Wiseman actually radioed Houston to ask for window-cleaning procedures.

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NASA Unveils 1st Earth Photos From Artemis II: ‘You Look Beautiful.’
Artemis II Mission: NASA Shares Stunning Earth Images—But Which Camera Captured Them?
NASA Artemis II crew plans moon observations, equipment tests on Day 3
After a successful trans-lunar injection burn to leave Earth orbit, the NASA Artemis II crew on Friday, April 3, are headed toward the moon — sending them farther into space than anyone has traveled s...

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Artemis II’s moonbound astronauts capture Earth’s brilliant blue beauty as they leave it behind
See the 'amazing' photos of Earth taken on historic Artemis II moon mission
Watch Artemis II livestream as crew travels towards the moon
As of 9 a.m. ET on Friday, April 3, the Artemis II crew is almost 84,000 miles away from Earth, and hurtling through space at 4,417 mph towards the moon, according to NASA's Artemis II tracker.

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Artemis II astronauts view Earth from space: "We're all one people"
Artemis II photos from space show stunning view of Earth

NASA releases stunning first images of Earth taken by the Artemis II astronauts

NASA released the very first images taken by the four astronauts aboard the Orion capsule as they are making their way to the moon.

NASA’s 1977 computers aboard Voyager are still working in interstellar space

Resurfaced footage released by YouTuber Gary Friedman shows some of the sturdy computing hardware that powered Voyager 1 and 2, a pair of spacecraft first launched in 1977 and tasked with taking a trip through our solar system.
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Moon colonies, helium-3 and future science: NASA's long-term goals after the Artemis II mission

NASA is preparing for Artemis II, which will send four astronauts around the Moon. The mission will test Orion’s life-support, navigation, and communication systems in preparation for future lunar landings.

A mission NASA might kill is still returning fascinating science from Jupiter

The findings were published March 20 in the journal AGU Advances and were based on data recorded by Juno in 2021 and 2022, after NASA granted an extension to the spacecraft’s operations upon completing a five-year science campaign at Jupiter.
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NASA science probe falls back to Earth sooner than expected

Earth is struck by reentering human-made objects far more often than most people realize. According to debris specialists, some mass survives to the ground about once a week, a reminder that the end of a spacecraft’s mission is often as engineered as its launch.

How NASA’s moon mission could help transform space medicine

NASA’s Artemis II mission is on the way to the moon on a flight that will ultimately help inform long-term space exploration, including on the lunar surface itself. AVATAR uses organs-on-a-chip, fluid-filled devices,
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NASA Earth Science Researchers Join Science Center for Marine Fisheries; Will Integrate Satellite Data into Fisheries Research

OCEAN SPRINGS, MS / ACCESS Newswire / March 4, 2026 / The Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCEMFIS) is pleased to announce that researchers from NASA's Earth Science Division have joined SCEMFIS as the latest members of its Industry Advisory Board (IAB).
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4 astronauts will return to the moon after 50 years - but they still won’t land

NASA’s Artemis program starts with something most people didn’t expect: sending mannequins, sensors, and even a cartoon character into deep space. Artemis I traveled 1.4 million miles and reentered Earth at Mach 32,