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NASA is just hours away from launching Artemis 2, the first mission to ferry humans into the moon’s vicinity in more than half a century. The roughly 10-day flight —

NASA’s historic Artemis 2 moon mission is set to launch later today (April 1) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, taking a crew of four astronauts on a mission

Artemis II, back to the Moon after more than 50 years: live observation of the spacecraft in space – YouTube Watch On NASA is preparing to make space history by

Get ready stargazers! The April full moon rises tonight, bringing a spectacular natural light show to the early spring sky as NASA’s Artemis 2 rocket sits on the pad ready

Saturn has a lopsided magnetic field, far different from the mostly even magnetosphere of Earth, new research suggests. The ringed gas giant’s wonky magnetic shield may be the result of

NASA’s X-ray spacecraft XRISM, which stands for X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, has clocked how fast winds are ripping from a distant galaxy bursting with star formation. It would appear

We are now in the home stretch in the nearly four-month saga of Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS). This is the make-or-break week for this object as it heads for its

Once the Artemis 2 astronauts get beyond the protective environment of Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field, they will be subject to space radiation. While en route to and from the

On top of being able to contribute to citizen science efforts to help defend Earth from asteroids, Unistellar is now calling on anyone with a Unistellar smart telescope to help

When Leslie Nielsen passed away in 2010, most of the obituaries led with his later career as a comic actor, when his masterful deadpan turned him into the unlikely star