Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the launch of Artemis II planned in a few weeks, Nasa is ready to monitor the sun during the mission in order to protect the astronauts while in space. Artemis II, the NASA lunar ...

On Friday morning, NASA shared a partial view of our bright blue planet as captured by Reid Wiseman, the mission’s commander. Earth, swathed in swirling clouds, is shown rising through a window on the Orion capsule in which the crew is to journey around the moon.

The crew will travel more than 252,000 miles from Earth – a distance record for humans – before hanging a U-turn behind the moon and heading home.

The four Artemis II astronauts are preparing for photography and reviewing lunar geography as their Orion spacecraft heads to the moon on Day 4 of flight.

Siddharth Patel is a 13-year-old Canadian space enthusiast from London, Ont., who discovered two asteroids. Patel speaks to CBC's Marriane Dimain about what it felt like to watch the liftoff of the historical Artemis II mission.

The Artemis II mission highlights how deep space poses new challenges for the human body, even on a short 10-day journey, with risks such as radiation and other effects that scientists are still studying.