Apollo's legacy is still visible in the tire tracks etched along the lunar surface.

The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Launched last week on humanity’s first trip to the moon since 1972, the three Americans and one Canadian

As the Artemis II crewed moon mission soars deeper into space than humans have traveled in decades, back on Earth, the White House has proposed slashing NASA’s budget.

NASA now believes there could be hundreds of billions of gallons of water on the moon. According to one theory a collision 4.5 billion years ago between the early Earth and a Mars-sized planet called Theia spun off the Moon and deposited large amounts of water. That is likely have been topped up by water-bearing asteroids and meteors.

Artemis might return astronauts to the moon, but only after years of delays and a price tag far exceeding the government’s projections.

The Artemis II crew includes the first Black man, the first woman and the first Canadian to ever fly on a moon mission.

NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS),

Artemis II, NASA's first crewed mission to the moon in more than 50 years, launched Wednesday, April 1. It represents a shift from short visits toward sustained exploration, where understanding lunar geology and resources becomes as important as the engineering that gets astronauts there.