April 7, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm See NASA’s Artemis II mission’s first incredible photos of the moon, Earth and a total solar eclipse The first images from NASA’s Artemis II mission’s lunar flyby were worth the wait By Meghan Bartels edited by Claire Cameron NASA has launched four astronauts on…
For the first time, humans have glimpsed the entire far side of the moon with their own eyes — and their photos are beginning to come in. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In what was the most highly anticipated moment of the Artemis II mission,…
BP shareholders should vote against its new chair over his decision to exclude a climate resolution from the company’s next annual meeting, a major proxy adviser has recommended. Glass Lewis has advised investors to vote against Albert Manifold, who has been in his post for just six months. The institution, which advises some of the…
The crew of Artemis II phoned home from the moon on Monday night after their record-breaking day, to find Donald Trump musing about how he had saved the US space agency Nasa from closing down and telling the astronauts how much they deserved the honor of the president seeking their autographs. The intermittently uncomfortable 12-minute…
A planned gas-fired power plant at a Google data center in Texas would generate up to 4.5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, more than the city of San Francisco. Google’s plan for a partnership with a natural gas power plant that could provide energy for one of its data centers in Texas was unearthed…
Humans are masters of seeing faces in any old thing—a handbag, TV static, toasted white bread. Scientists want to know why. A few years ago, as the category 5 Hurricane Milton bore down on the Florida coast, the internet noticed something strange. Doesn’t the satellite image of the storm look a bit like an angry…
Android has a reputation of being more customizable than the iPhone, but that’s become less true over the last few years. For example, iPhones now come with an extra button just for shortcuts—Android could do it so much better, though. The “Action Button” made its debut in 2023 with the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro…
The four astronauts on Nasa’s Artemis II mission have travelled further from Earth than anyone in human history, in a dramatic lunar flyby that brought spectacular images of the planet from rarely seen angles. The Orion spacecraft’s crew lost contact with mission control for 40 minutes as they circled behind the Moon, as was expected….
Astronauts onboard the Orion spacecraft break the record for the farthest distance humans have travelled from Earth – 5,000 miles (8,000km) beyond the moon – exceeding the distance achieved by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970 Artemis II swings back around after completing record-setting moon flyby Source: Read Full Article
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