NASA to roll out rocket for Artemis 2 moon mission
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The familiar stars of the constellation Orion, the Hunter, will be visible twinkling to the right of Jupiter on the night of Feb. 1, with the light of the red giant star Aldebaran, which represents one of the eyes of the great bull represented in the constellation Taurus, winking above.
The coming year's space highlights include a NASA mission that will send astronauts around the moon and a Blue Origin lunar lander mission.
The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year's cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years.
A growing fleet of privately built spacecraft is preparing to attempt robotic landings on the moon as humanity's exploration efforts expand.
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Artemis II: back to the Moon
Artemis II was originally scheduled to launch between 2019 and 2021 but delays kept pushing it back. In September last year, Nasa was finally able to say that the SLS rocket was “ready to fly crew”, and in November the Orion capsule was “stacked atop the rocket for a final series of tests”, said New Scientist.
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10 facts about the moon - from space experts
Space experts have discovered something incredible about lunar water distribution that challenges everything we thought we knew. According to a new analysis of data from NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) mission, deposits of ice in lunar dust and ...
Moon-orbiting spacecraft belonging to NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) have both snapped photos of Japan's ruined lunar lander Resilience, following its catastrophic "hard landing" earlier this month. Some of the images — the first to visually confirm the spacecraft's fate — show pieces of debris scattered across the surrounding area.
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this amazing view from the International Space Station using a new 15mm lens (T1.8, 1/3s exposure) that was delivered on a recent Cygnus cargo ship. Credit: NASA / Matthew Dominick | edited by Space.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 5 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 14, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission from the International Space Station, pending weather conditions.
A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar wind and our planet's magnetic field, upending a 20-year-old theory based on NASA's Apollo lunar samples.