Artemis II hit a key milestone Thursday when Orion ignited its engine, propelling the crew on a trip that will reach deeper into space than any human has traveled.

Follow Artemis II in real time with NASA's tracker. See where the spacecraft is, how far it's traveled and what to know about the mission.

The crew is scheduled to fly around the moon on Monday and then head back home, with splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on April 10.

Astronauts are testing systems and preparing Orion for a lunar flyby, the mission’s most critical phase before returning to Earth.

NASA's Artemis II is on its way to the moon, marking the first crewed journey beyond Earth orbit since 1972. Here's how to track the historic mission.

On their way around the Moon, the Artemis II crew had time to snap some terrific pictures of our blue planet. NASA has begun sharing the images, including the one above, which shows a striking view of Earth through the Orion capsule's window.

NASA’s Artemis II mission has traveled more than 160,000 miles and is over halfway to the moon, marking a key step in the first crewed lunar mission since the 1970s.

The astronauts of Artemis II were 97,843 miles from Earth at the time this article published. As the Artemis II astronauts fly farther from Earth, they’re taking the opportunity to look back home. On Friday morning,