When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Artemis 2 astronauts after their arrival in Houston on April 11, 2026. | Credit: Space.com / Josh Dinner Fresh off humanity’s first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years, the Artemis 2 astronauts are stepping into…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico City is sinking by nearly 10 inches (about 25 centimeters) a year, according to new satellite imagery released this week by NASA, making it one of the world’s fastest-subsiding metropolises. One of the world’s most sprawling and populated urban areas, at 3,000 square miles (about 7,800 square kilometers) and some…
The Artemis II crew, following their return to Earth after a historic 10-day lunar flyby, spoke with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz, describing the mission as a “glorious” experience. The crew — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — returned to Earth on April 10, splashing down off the…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The spacecraft that flew four astronauts around the moon is back where its record-breaking journey began. NASA’s Artemis II capsule returned to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, almost a month after blasting off on humanity’s first lunar trip in more than a half-century. Following its splashdown in the Pacific…
An artist’s impression of a star with two planets transiting across it NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) Astronomers have identified more than 10,000 candidate planets in data from a NASA telescope, the most ever found in a single haul. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched in 2018. It is tasked with looking…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX’s brawny Falcon Heavy rocket is about to fly for the first time in a year and a half, and you can watch the action live. A Falcon Heavy topped with the huge ViaSat-3 F3 communications…
Less than two weeks after NASA’s Artemis II mission, the crew’s observations from their lunar flyby are already providing insights into what it might take to build a base on the moon, NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said Thursday. In a live conversation with NBC’s Lester Holt and former NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Isaacman said that…
NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected more than 20 carbon-containing compounds — including seven never before seen on Mars — in a sample collected from 3.5-billion-year-old clay-bearing sandstones in Gale Crater. A close-up of three holes Curiosity drilled into Martian rock at a location nicknamed Mary Anning in October 2020. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech /…
NASA shut down one of Voyager 1’s science instruments to conserve dwindling power and keep the nearly 49-year-old spacecraft operating as it continues its journey through interstellar space more than 15 billion miles from Earth. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California sent commands Friday to turn off Voyager 1’s Low-Energy Charged…
An image of Titan taken by the Cassini spacecraft during a flyby NASA/JPL/SSI/Val Klavans Titan’s plains may be covered in up to a metre of fluffy, organic “snow”. About 65 per cent of the surface of Saturn’s huge moon is made up of strangely uniform and flat plains, and they seem to be coated in…
