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Liftoff. At 6:35 pm ET on April 2, a Space Launch System rocket lifted an Orion capsule from Earth. On board were Artemis II astronauts Reid…

At 6:36 pm Cape Canaveral time, NASA’s SLS rocket lifted off without incident with the four members of the Artemis II spacecraft aboard. During the first…

NASA’s Artemis II flight, which is set to take four astronauts toward the Moon for the first time in more than 50 years, successfully launched on…

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft launched from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 6:35 p.m. ET on Wednesday, carrying a…

In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kilometers per hour). The mission aimed to…

Between October 2022 and March 2025, we captured 22 such stellar occultations of the Didymos system. Combined with a huge dataset publicly available at the Minor…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said early Monday the U.S. military operation in Iran is  “laser-focused” as the U.S. and Israeli military operation against Iran continued into…

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission will use two identical satellites to study space weather from Earth to Mars. Scheduled to launch in 2025, it will observe how the…

Interstellar visitor comet 3I/Atlas may have bid farewell to Earth, but spacecraft traveling through the solar system kept a close watch on the mysterious traveler. The…

NASA has once again postponed the launch of Artemis II, the crewed lunar flyby mission, setting a new launch window for April. Although March 6 had…