The Artemis II mission is a 10-day test flight around the moon in the Orion crew capsule. As of April 2, the astronauts were orbiting Earth at a height 184 times higher than the International Space Station. The crew is expected to travel farther from Earth than any humans ever have, surpassing the Apollo 13 record.

The four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft are heading to the Moon after completing the critical engine burn that propels the capsule on its journey.

Resurfaced footage released by YouTuber Gary Friedman shows some of the sturdy computing hardware that powered Voyager 1 and 2, a pair of spacecraft first launched in 1977 and tasked with taking a trip through our solar system.

Hours before the Artemis II launch, the Great Lakes Science Center was filled with people eager to learn about space exploration.

While the Artemis 2 mission is primarily a test flight, the four astronauts on board will conduct some science during the nearly 10-day mission.

The world’s first commercial space science telescope, Mauve, just sent back data from low-Earth orbit, achieving “first light” — and signaling a potential new era for low-cost observation. Launched Nov. 28, 2025, aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-15 ...

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Scientists have uncovered a surprising way to study the harsh space weather around young M dwarf stars. Mysterious dips in starlight turned out to be massive rings of plasma swirling in the stars’ magnetic fields.

Halfway through Space Is the Place, Sun Ra muses that scientists are fed on research while Black people have been fed on freedom. As a Black physicist, I have been fed on both, and I have tried to grow the seeds that my ancestors passed on to me.

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