The new, juiced-up version of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket just cleared a big hurdle on the path to its first-ever launch. That liftoff, targeted for early or mid-May, will be the…
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NASA’s Artemis 2 moonshot was just the ‘opening act’ for America’s return to the moon, space agency chief says
The head of NASA said the agency’s historic Artemis 2 moon mission, which sent the first astronauts around the moon in over 50 years, is only the beginning of a…
Sci-fi stories never really end anymore, and that’s a problem
There was a time when things ended. When the stories on our screens had a beginning, middle, and end. A time when a trilogy was the longest series of films…
10 epic events for the Aug. 12, 2026, total solar eclipse in Spain and Iceland
Where will you be for the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026? If you’re within the roughly 190-mile (305 kilometers) wide path of totality through eastern Greenland, western Iceland…
This Week In Space podcast: Episode 205 — All About Artemis
All About Artemis – The Brilliance of Artemis 2 – YouTube Watch On On Episode 205 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the flight of…
NEAF 2026 returns to New York this weekend with all-star astronaut lineup and ‘world’s largest’ space expo
Thousands of enthusiasts, professionals and curious skywatchers will gather this weekend for the world’s largest and most spectacular astronomy and space expo. The Northeast Astronomy Forum & Space Expo 2026…
The Artemis 2 astronauts got a private ‘Project Hail Mary’ screening before launch. Here’s their verdict
NASA’s Orion spacecraft and Artemis 2 crew just completed their awe-inspiring loop around the moon on Monday, April 6, as the world watched this historic record-breaking endeavor. Now Reid Wiseman,…
Large Hadron Collider gives scientists their best look yet at conditions right after the Big Bang
The world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, has given scientists their best look yet at quark-gluon plasma, the primordial matter that filled the universe moments after the…
Relive Artemis 2’s epic moon flyby with these amazing photos
The Artemis 2 astronauts’ photography skills were up to the epic task. The spaceflyers — NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen — flew…
Artemis 2 breaks humanity’s all-time distance record during historic loop around the moon (video)
NASA’s Artemis 2 moon mission just etched its name in the record books. The four Artemis 2 astronauts have now traveled farther from Earth than any people in history, breaking…
