Iceland has served as a lunar stand-in for training NASA astronauts since the days of the Apollo missions, and this summer the Artemis II crew took its place in that long history.

To prepare for NASA's first journey to the moon in over half a century, the crew of the Artemis II spent the summer training in Earth's most moon-like environment.. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman ...

NASA image of the most recent eruption on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula in natural color overlaid with an infrared signal to help distinguish the lava’s heat signature.

The photos, taken by NASA's Landsat 9 satellite, show lava flowing from a fissure in the Sundhnúkur crater row on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula.

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Satellites watched bright burning lava surge toward Iceland's Blue Lagoon following a volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula. A series of earthquakes triggered a new eruption from a volcanic ...

The astronauts that went to Iceland this summer are training for Artemis II: one small step towards NASA’s long-time goal to put humans back on the surface of the Moon.

Nasa has captured red-hot lava flowing from Iceland's recent volcanic eruption in stunning satellite images. The Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9 pictured the shot on November 24, showing ...