Artemis II breaks Apollo 13’s distance record with daring moon flyby that included a solar eclipse By Marcia Dunn April 6, 2026 at 9:13 p.m. The Artemis II astronauts pointed their moonship toward home Monday night, wrapping up a lunar...
Artemis II toilet acts up again as astronauts speed toward the moon to break Apollo 13’s record By Marcia Dunn April 5, 2026 at 9:28 a.m. More than halfway to the moon, Artemis II astronauts prepared for their historic lunar fly-around...
Artemis II’s moonbound astronauts capture Earth’s brilliant blue beauty as they leave it behind By Marcia Dunn April 3, 2026 at 9:30 p.m. NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut...
Artemis II astronauts rocket toward the moon after spending a day orbiting around Earth By Marcia Dunn April 2, 2026 at 9:34 p.m. NASA’s Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon Thursday night, breaking...
Artemis II astronauts bound for moon after rocketing away on NASA’s first lunar voyage in decades By Marcia Dunn April 1, 2026 at 8:27 p.m. Carrying three Americans and one Canadian, the 32-story rocket rose from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center...
Chicago space expert weighs in on launch of mission to orbit the moon By Christiana Freitag March 31, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. Three Americans and one Canadian will embark on a 10-day journey as part of the...
Apollo vs. Artemis: What to know about NASA’s return to the moon By Marcia Dunn March 29, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. The Americans who blazed the trail to the moon more than half a century ago...
Meet the Artemis crew in NASA’s first astronaut mission to the moon in more than a half-century By Marcia Dunn March 29, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. The Americans who blazed the trail to the moon more than half a century ago...
Wildfires, dust storms and traffic made Chicago the 3rd-most polluted major US city in 2025, report finds By Adriana Pérez March 26, 2026 at 7:29 a.m. Massive intermodal facilities, growth of industrial warehouses have contributed to the Joliet area having highest...
Today in Chicago History: Albert Einstein visits Chicago on his 54th birthday By Kori Rumore March 14, 2026 at 4:00 a.m. Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 14, according...