NASA’s new policy lets astronauts carry smartphones on missions like Crew-12 and Artemis II, opening the door to more candid, personal views of life in orbit and beyond Earth.

NASA has selected two Earth science missions for development, one focused on studying the atmosphere and the other on terrestrial ecosystems and ice.

Apple (AAPL) iPhones will be journeying where no smartphones have gone before—on a trip around the moon during next month's Artemis II mission by NASA. "NASA astronauts will soon fly with the latest smartphones,

NASA has already set a date for a mission that will study how space radiation affects humans on the surface of the Moon.

The Earth Dynamics Geodetic Explorer (EDGE) satellite is one of two next generation satellites selected by NASA to help better understand Earth and improve capabilities to foresee environmental events and mitigate disasters.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that the policy will start with missions to the ISS first—and then the moon.

When NASA looks for people to send toward the Moon, the search often leads through the high desert of Northern Arizona. The latest contender, geologist and astronaut candidate Lauren Edgar, is not just passing through that landscape,