1+ week, 1+ day ago  (648+ words) A NASA rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said Tuesday. The organic molecules are not definitive evidence of past life, the NASA-led team…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (746+ words) From false claims that a historic lunar fly-by was staged in a movie studio to unfounded narratives that footage of the crew was AI-generated, the Artemis II mission has been clouded by a blizzard of misinformation. The falsehoods -- circulating across…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (798+ words) The Artemis II capsule and its four-member crew streaked through Earth's atmosphere and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday after nearly 10 days in space, capping the first voyage by humans to the "vicinity of the moon in…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (552+ words) Drawing ever closer to Earth, the Artemis II astronauts tidied up their lunar cruiser for its upcoming "fireball" return and reflected on their historic journey around the moon, describing it as surreal and profound. As the next-to-last day of their…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1382+ words) It's a question that can produce some, well, uncomfortable answers if you happen to be an earthling. "If I were looking at Earth from a distance, I would be pretty disappointed," theoretical physicist Avi Loeb says. "Most of our investing…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (583+ words) The Artemis II astronauts snapped a stunning shot of Earthset -- the moment when the Earth dips below the moon's horizon -- on their long journey back home Tuesday after wrapping up a historic lunar flyby. That shot 57 years ago helped capture…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (434+ words) The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission reached the furthest point that any human has been from Earth "on Monday, cruising along a path in the Moon's gravitational sphere of influence that will soon take them over the shadowed,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (567+ words) As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge technology and lessons learned from the Apollo program 50 years ago. At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, a team of…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (270+ words) The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet's brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon. NASA released the crew's first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first astronaut moonshot in more than half a century. As…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (962+ words) Four astronauts blasted off aboard a massive NASA rocket Wednesday on a long-anticipated journey around the moon, the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years. With an intense roar that reverberated far beyond the launchpad the enormous orange-and-white rocket…...