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A day after lighting its engine to head to the moon, the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft is performing well with only minor issues. The post Artemis 2 in good shape cruising towards the moon appeared first on SpaceNews.

A new study presented at the 2026 LPSC suggests that if life does exist in Venus' clouds, there's a chance it came from Earth.

An Atlas 5 launched the latest set of satellites for Amazons broadband constellation April 4 as the company seeks to accelerate deployment of its spacecraft. The post Atlas 5 launches Amazon Leo satellites appeared first...

The astronauts on NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission reported a burning smell from their Orion spacecraft toilet overnight, but Mission Control isn't overly concerned. They are over halfway to the moon today.

In about 5 to 8 billion years, our sun is expected to evolve into a white dwarf-an extremely dense, Earth-sized stellar remnant that has exhausted its fuel and shed its outer layer. But while our sun is a solitary star, ...

$71 billion request for the U.S. Space Force for fiscal year 2027 includes more than $60 billion for procurement, research and development The post Space Force budget would more than double in Trumps $1.5 trillion defens...

On Episode 204 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik bring it to you from Houston, as the Artemis 2 mission continues.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch reads on a tablet in the dimly lit Orion crew capsule in this April 3, 2026, photo. To the right of the images center, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen is seen in profile ...

'If you see the deep ones, the Tsyong, they're spirits sent to judge you.'

The iconic arcade shooter is 45 in 2026, but 'Defender' needs preserving if it's going to see 50.

NASA's Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover was cleaning up after a workout when the cameras caught a bit more than expected. Mission Control's response was priceless.

The Artemis 2 astronauts are the first people to journey toward the moon since 1972. Why has it taken us more than half a century to go back?

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.

NASA is joining international partners to hunt for ice on the moon in support of future human exploration. The agency is providing a water-detecting instrument, the Neutron Spectrometer System (NSS), to the Lunar Polar E...

The Artemis 2 astronauts have passed the halfway point between Earth and the moon on Saturday as they sped toward a planned lunar flyby, with NASA releasing initial images of Earth taken from inside the Orion spacecraft....

Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen felt like he was "falling out of the sky" as his spacecraft followed its complex flight path to the moon, the Canadian said in a Saturday video call.

The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet's brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon.