On Friday, the Trump administration released its proposed budget for 2027. The budget blueprint includes significant cuts to NASA, but it targets even more severe limits for other science-focused agencies, with no agencies spared. The document is laced with blatantly political language and resurfaces grievances that have been the subject of right-wing ire for years….
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Artemis II has once again made history by carrying humans farther from Earth than ever before, surpassing the record of 248,655 miles (400,171 kilometers) set by Apollo 13 in 1970. The previous record fell today (April 6) at 1:57 p.m. EDT (17:57 GMT) as the Orion capsule “Integrity” began its loop around the far side…
Four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II test flight around the Moon made history at 12:56 p.m. CDT on Monday, traveling 248,655 miles from Earth, surpassing the record for human spaceflight’s farthest distance previously set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970. At its farthest point, crew inside the Orion spacecraft will have traveled about 252,760…
Netflix has released a new app called Playgrounds, essentially serving as an app for kids to play games. While it’s always been possible for parents to set up kids’ profiles and monitor their activity and access content on the main Netflix app, this new app throws a couple of useful features in the mix. For…
The Artemis II astronauts have broken the record for the furthest distance humans have travelled from Earth. The previous record of 248,655 miles (400,171km) was set by the Apollo 13 crew in 1970. Artemis II will eventually beat this record by about 4,102 miles, reaching a maximum distance of 252,757 miles from Earth. As the…
April 6, 2026 at 1:59 p.m. EDTToday at 1:59 p.m. EDT The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission has officially ventured farther into space than any humans before, zooming more than 248,655 miles from Earth in its historic voyage around the far side of the moon. The distance record, set just before 2 p.m. Eastern…
New computational simulations suggest ice-giant planets like Uranus and Neptune harbor a quasi-one-dimensional superionic state of carbon hydride that could reshape how scientists understand planetary interiors. Illustration of the predicted hexagonal carbon hydride compound under Neptune-like interior conditions. In this structure, carbon forms the outer spiral chains (yellow) and hydrogen forms the inner spiral chains…
April 6, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm NASA’s Artemis II astronauts are officially farther from Earth than any human has gone before The four astronauts onboard NASA’s moon mission just broke the record for the farthest distance from Earth traveled by any human By Meghan Bartels edited by Claire Cameron NASA…
A hiker was taken to a hospital in critical condition after bees stung him more than 100 times on an Arizona mountain trail over the Easter weekend – an emergency which required the help of a helicopter crew. The man reported “over 100 stings” had left him “unable to continue his descent” from the summit…
