As the Artemis II mission crew heads back toward Earth following a history-making trip around the moon this week, NASA dropped the astronauts‘ highly anticipated morning playlist. “You asked for it. Here it is,” NASA wrote Wednesday on social media, sharing the list via Spotify. “Each track was selected by the Moon crew, continuing a tradition…
New images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveal two young stars surrounded by planet-forming disks, Tau 042021 (left) and Oph 163131 (right), offering a rare edge-on glimpse into how worlds like our own may take shape. These composite images show protoplanetary disks Tau 042021 (left) and Oph 163131 (right). Image credit: NASA /…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artemis 2 astronaut Christina Koch of NASA looks at Earth as her Orion spacecraft heads toward the moon in April 2026. | Credit: NASA Traveling far from her home planet helped Artemis 2 astronaut Christina Koch appreciate it…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The toilet on the Artemis 2 mission’s Orion spacecraft is getting a lot of attention these days. | Credit: NASA/Canadian Space Agency Sorry, but we need to talk about Artemis 2’s space toilet again. The loo on Artemis…
It was a moment for the history books: The Artemis II mission performed its much anticipated lunar flyby yesterday, and came within just 4,067 miles of the moon. While soaring aboard their Orion capsule beyond the far side of the moon, the crew also reached an estimated 252,756 miles from Earth, breaking Apollo 13’s record…
Using the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have characterized the atmosphere of TOI-5205b, an extrasolar gas giant orbiting a small, dim red dwarf star. These observations have revealed an atmosphere unexpectedly poor in heavy elements, raising fresh questions about how such ‘forbidden’ alien worlds take shape and evolve. The…
On 6 April, the astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission flew in a loop around the far side of the moon. They travelled more than 406,700 kilometres from Earth, further than any humans have travelled before. The four crew members – Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover and Jeremy Hansen – alternated shifts at the…
HOUSTON (AP) — Still aglow from their triumphant lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts put in a call to their friends aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as they headed home from the moon. It was the first moonship-to-spaceship radio linkup ever. NASA’s Apollo crews had no off-the-planet company back in the 1960s and…
The near side of the moon is visible on the right, identifiable by the dark splotches that cover the surface. Left of this begins the far side that we can’t see from Earth NASA For the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972, humans have visited the moon. On 6 April, the four astronauts of…
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA HOUSTON, Tex. — Today (April 6), as NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts had their names etched into history books for becoming the farthest-ever humans from Earth, they took a moment to recognize the milestone by remembering someone…
