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As Artemis 2 swings around the moon on April 6, the four astronauts are expected to witness a total solar eclipse from beyond the lunar far side, a sight visible only from their spacecraft.

Preliminary observations from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have already uncovered more than 11,000 previously unknown asteroids, offering an early glimpse of the discovery pace scientists expect once full operations are

Using European Space Agency Gaia data and a new detection algorithm, astronomers have identified dozens of faint stellar-stream candidates around the Milky Way, sharply expanding the map of ancient gravitational debris.

NASA’s Artemis II mission is underway, sending four astronauts around the Moon and back on an approximately 10-day test flight designed to validate Orion’s performance in deep space.

NASA’s Artemis 2 crew is heading toward the moon, marking humanity’s first crewed journey to lunar space since Apollo 17 in December 1972 and highlighting how funding and political urgency shaped the long pause.

NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts photographed Earth from Orion after a crucial engine burn sent the mission out of Earth orbit and toward the moon.

TechCrunch argues Artemis II is likely the last U.S. crewed moon mission built without major help from venture-backed space companies, setting up a sharper handoff to SpaceX and Blue Origin next.

NASA has started the formal countdown for Artemis 2, with mission managers reporting no major issues ahead of the planned April 1 launch window.

SpaceX scheduled its Transporter-16 rideshare launch for March 30, 2026, with a Falcon 9 set to lift 119 payloads from Vandenberg during a 57-minute morning window.

A newly released NISAR image of Mount Rainier offers an early look at how the NASA-ISRO mission can map land and ice through cloud cover while tracking changes across Earth’s surface on a regular schedule.

NASA and JAXA’s XRISM mission has directly measured the speed of superheated gas blasting out of the starburst galaxy M82, offering fresh evidence about what drives galaxy-scale winds.

A new paper argues that conventional SETI research has been too narrowly focused on radio and microwave frequencies for decades, and that a broader search across the full electromagnetic spectrum could dramatically improve the odds of detecting alien signals.