NASA on Tuesday announced the four crew members for the Artemis III mission, which is planned for 2027 and will include tests in Earth orbit.

The four Artemis III astronauts follow in the space boots of the Artemis II crew: commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, who broke the all-time record for the farthest distance humans have traveled from Earth as they flew around the moon.

NASA astronaut commander Randy Bresnik, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut pilot Luca Parmitano, NASA astronaut mission specialist Frank Rubio, and NASA astronaut mission specialist Andre Douglas speak during a press conference announcing the crew for the Artemis III mission at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston,

An asteroid measuring over 160 feet across will impact Earth only about every 1,000 years.

Since NASA's Artemis II crew members safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10 after their record-setting mission around the moon, science teams have been busy collecting more data and combing through observations collected on the test flight.

A closer look at NASA's asteroid mission and Earth's core

A massive solar eruption has launched a fast coronal mass ejection towards Earth, arriving Monday, June 8, 2026. Nasa has issued a G3 geomagnetic storm watch, with auroras possible across northern India,

Every day, a NASA program quietly recalculates the orbits of thousands of space rocks and flags each one that will pass within roughly 4.6 million miles of Earth. That distance, about 19.5 times the gap between Earth and the Moon,