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NASA
Artemis II: NASA's First Crewed Return to the Moon
Artemis II will fly four astronauts around the Moon in 2026 — NASA's first crewed lunar voyage since Apollo. Inside the mission, crew, and timeline.
Astronomy
James Webb Spots a Record-Breaking Distant Galaxy
JWST pushes the cosmic frontier again, imaging the most distant confirmed galaxy to date.
NASA
NASA Sets New Date for Artemis II Crewed Flyby
The first crewed mission around the Moon in over 50 years gets an updated launch window.
SpaceX
SpaceX Reuses a Booster for the 25th Time
A single Falcon 9 first stage notches a new reuse record on a Starlink flight.
Discoveries
A Hidden Ocean World? New Clues from Europa
Fresh data hints at plumes venting from beneath Europa's icy shell.
Technology
How Ion Engines Quietly Power Deep-Space Missions
The unglamorous thrusters that push probes across the solar system, explained.
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Space
A Cosmic Pile-Up: JWST Catches Six Galaxies Merging at the Dawn of Time
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have captured a rare, ancestral portrait of the cosmos: at least six early galaxies crashing together just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, all swirling around a hungry supermassive black hole.
Space
Raining Rocks: The Alien World Where Mineral Clouds Vanish Every Night
A giant planet nearly 700 light-years away has a bizarre daily weather cycle where thick mineral clouds appear every morning, only to completely vanish by nightfall.
Space
The Great Ocean Hunt: Why NASA and ESA Are Racing to Jupiter’s Icy Moons
Mars gets all the headlines, but the best place to look for extraterrestrial life might actually be in the deep, dark oceans hidden beneath the frozen shells of Jupiter’s moons.
Space
The 'Seven Minutes of Terror': How We Actually Land Rovers on Mars
Sending a rover to Mars is an incredible achievement, but safely placing a multi-billion dollar laboratory onto the Martian surface is the ultimate test of physics and engineering.
Space
MRN: The Moving Internet of Deep Space and the Personal Wi-Fi of Perseverance, Curiosity, and Other Rovers
Much different than your home internet, the Mars Relay Network (MRN) is an international constellation of five spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet that sends precious science data from surface rovers back to Earth.
Space
Dark Matter: The Invisible Architect of the Universe
Dark matter makes up 27% of the universe yet has never been directly detected. Here is what we know, what we suspect, and why it keeps physicists awake at night.