The four Artemis astronauts circling Earth were awaiting the green light from NASA on Thursday to head for the moon and carry out the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years.
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NASA's moonbound astronauts have reason to celebrate, and not just because their launch went so well. Their toilet is now working.
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Apr 2, 2026
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Astrophiles are eagerly awaiting the launch of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Artemis II on Wednesday, which is set to be the most powerful rocket launch on record and will send human beings back toward ...
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Apr 1, 2026
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While I was leading a tour of the National Air and Space Museum in January 2026, a visitor posed this insightful question: "Why has it taken so long to return to the moon?"
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Mar 31, 2026
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It's humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972.
Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2026
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NASA began the countdown Monday for humanity's first launch to the moon in 53 years.
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Mar 31, 2026
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In September 2022, humanity crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid—on purpose. The objective of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was to see if we could intentionally modify the orbit of Dimorphos, the small moonlet ...
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Mar 30, 2026
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NASA's Apollo moonshots are a tough act to follow, even after all this time.
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Mar 30, 2026
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Neptune is the solar system's most distant planet, a cold, blue ice giant sitting nearly 30 times further from the sun than Earth. At that remote distance, temperatures plunge to nearly minus 200 degrees Celsius and a single ...
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Mar 29, 2026
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The astronauts set to become the first lunar visitors in more than half a century arrived at their launch site Friday, joining the towering rocket that stands poised to blast off next week and send them around the moon.
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