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The Artemis 2 astronauts pose for a photograph alongside their zero gravity indicator on March 27, 2026 after arriving at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Image credit: NASA/John Kraus)

Astronomers have discovered dozens of faint ribbons of stars in the outskirts of the Milky Way using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission. The findings were made using

You’ve probably heard it said by now: NASA’s Artemis 2 mission was the first to launch astronauts toward the moon in more than 50 years. But that was just the

Artemis II has launched, sending a crew of four astronauts on a mission to circle the moon and back to Earth, the first step toward planned lunar landings and eventual

NASA’s historic Artemis 2 mission will return to Earth today (April 10) to end a 10-day test flight around the moon. The four astronaut crew return home with a splashdown

The S.S. Steven R. Nagel has arrived at the International Space Station. The second of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to deliver supplies to the orbiting outpost, the vehicle

SpaceX began and ended the day with Starlink launches. The company sent two Falcon 9 rockets soaring, first from Florida before sunrise on Tuesday (April 14), and then from California

President Trump’s big NASA budget cuts appear to be dead on arrival, again. Earlier this month, the White House released its fiscal year (FY) 2027 federal budget request, which slashes

Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) continues to brighten ahead of its closest approach to Earth on April 26, and you can watch it fly between the sun and Earth through the

In its infancy, the universe had a bit of an identity crisis. For the first few hundred million years, the vast cosmic gas between galaxies was primarily a chilly, dense