NASA doesn’t plan to rest on its laurels after the historic success of its Artemis 2 moon mission. Here are the agency’s ambitious plans for Earth’s nearest neighbor. Continue ReadingArtemis 3 and beyond: What’s next for NASA after Artemis 2 moon success
With Artemis II successfully completing its historic lunar mission on Friday, NASA is banking on billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk for the next step: landing astronauts on the moon.
When NASA flight director Zebulon Scoville was working a shift during the uncrewed Artemis I test flight, he realized the US space agency wasn’t consistently livestreaming the spacecraft’s journey to Earth.
Artemis II’s astronauts closed out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than half a century with a Pacific splashdown on Friday, blazing new records near the moon with grace and joy.
The Artemis 2 mission is set for a final, fiery test when the spacecraft reenters April 10 ahead of a splashdown off the California coast. The post NASA prepares for Artemis 2 return appeared first on SpaceNews.
China’s multi-element Chang’e-7 lunar spacecraft has arrived at Wenchang spaceport for launch preparations ahead of a planned liftoff in the second half of 2026. The post China’s Chang’e-7 arrives at spaceport for lunar south pole exploration mission appeared first on SpaceNews.
A budget proposal for the Department of Commerce raises new doubts about the future of a civil space traffic management system under development there. The post Commerce Department budget proposal revives concerns about TraCSS appeared first on SpaceNews.
Paris, April 2026 – GSOA and Novaspace announce the inaugural edition of the Space Industry Forum (SIF), a new flagship event co-organized by both organizations, taking place on May 19, 2026, at The Fullerton Hotel in Singapore. […] The post GSOA and Novaspace Launch the Space Industry Forum (SIF) 2026 in Singapore appeared first on SpaceNews.
Chinese satellite maker Spacety has completed multiple rounds of equity financing worth $190 million to scale its vertically integrated satellite manufacturing and data services model. The post Spacety raises $190 million to scale satellite manufacturing, plans IPO appeared first on SpaceNews.
Based in Herndon, Virginia, the company specializes in space-based radio-frequency signals intelligence for government agencies The post HawkEye 360 files to go public appeared first on SpaceNews.
The first human mission beyond Earth orbit in more than 50 years successfully concluded with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean April 10. The post Orion splashes down to successfully end Artemis 2 mission appeared first on SpaceNews.
East Aurora, NY – Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B), a worldwide designer, manufacturer, and systems integrator of high-performance precision motion and fluid controls and control systems, highlights the critical […] The post Moog Technology Keeps Artemis II Astronauts Safe During Historic Lunar Mission appeared first on SpaceNews.
Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning home with four astronauts and safely capping humanity’s first voyage to the Moon in nearly 54 years. Temperatures outside the capsule built up to some 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit as a sheath of plasma enveloped the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, and its four long-distance travelers, temporarily blocking radio signals the Continue ReadingFour astronauts are back home after a daring ride around the Moon
NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts came home today (April 10), wrapping up an epic mission that broke spaceflight records and set the stage for even more ambitious moonshots to come. Continue ReadingSplashdown! Artemis 2 astronauts return to Earth after historic NASA mission to the moon
A class of undergraduate students at University of Chicago has used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to discover one of the oldest stars in the universe, a star that formed in a companion galaxy and migrated to the Milky Way.
Elements essential to life, such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur, were “delivered” to Earth and the moon during the early stages of the solar system via asteroids and comets impacting their surfaces. These exogenous materials may have provided the chemical building blocks necessary for the origin and early evolution of life on Earth. But extensive geological activity and biological processes on Earth have largely erased the direct records of these early inputs on our planet.
Observations conducted with the Subaru Telescope and its first-generation wide-field camera, Suprime-Cam, have revealed new insights into the relationship between the color and size of Jupiter Trojan asteroids.
The two largest planets in our Solar System, Jupiter and Saturn, have the largest systems of moons. However, Jupiter has more large moons than Saturn, which has only one. Since both planets are gas giants, the reasons for the differences in these satellite systems have long puzzled astronomers. This motivated a collaborative team of researchers from Japan and China to develop a physically consistent model that can explain this.
Thousands of enthusiasts, professionals and curious skywatchers will gather this weekend for the world’s largest and most spectacular astronomy and space expo. Continue ReadingNEAF 2026 returns to New York this weekend with all-star astronaut lineup and ‘world’s largest’ space expo
Thirty-four years after Cornell University scientists first conceived it, the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) now rises above the Atacama Desert, near the summit of Cerro Chajnantor in Chile. FYST will help answer some of the most important questions in astronomy, including how the universe works, the nature of dark energy and dark matter, how galaxies form and evolve and what happened in those mysterious first moments after the Big Bang.
