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Artemis 2 breaks humanity's all-time distance record during historic loop around the moon (video)
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (624+ words) Apollo 13 had held the mark for more than 50 years. NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission just etched its name in the record books. The four Artemis 2 astronauts have now traveled farther from Earth than any people in history, breaking the mark set…...
'Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord' is Lucasfilm's darkest and most focused animated show yet (review)
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (548+ words) Darth Maul's own series instantly sets itself apart from its relatives with a killer pitch, but it suffers from familiar debut season frustrations. When The Bad Batch ended in 2024, two spinoff animated shows seemed likely " a Vnetress spin-off and an…...
The moon up close: How the Artemis 2 astronauts are photographing their historic lunar flyby
3+ hour, 36+ min ago (685+ words) The Artemis 2 quartet are the first humans to get an up-close look at the moon in more than 50 years. The Artemis 2 astronaut mission is giving humans an up-close and personal look at the moon. That eye-full view had not been…...
Astronaut Victor Glover is the latest in a long line of Black American explorers − including York, the enslaved man who played a key role in the Lewis and Clark expedition
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (398+ words) Glover's achievement is worth celebrating. But it's also worth remembering that he belongs to a long and underappreciated history. This article was originally published at The Conversation. In April 2026, four astronauts are scheduled to fly around the Moon. As part…...
Deja vu: Trump proposes cutting NASA science funding by 47% again
5+ hour, 32+ min ago (284+ words) The proposed budget would cut NASA's overall funding by 23% and nearly halve its science portfolio. A proposed fiscal year 2027 budget for NASA would cut the agency's overall funding by 23% and slash its science programs by nearly half, prompting strong opposition…...
NASA Artemis 2 astronauts to make historic moon flyby today. Here's what to expect hour by hour (timeline)
11+ hour, 32+ min ago (740+ words) The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis 2 mission will fly around the moon today in a seven-hour flyby that will begin at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT), but the crew has already captured stunning views of Earth's neighbor over the last few days. You'll…...
Humanity is back at the moon! Artemis 2 astronauts arrive in lunar space
11+ hour, 32+ min ago (254+ words) People hadn't been there since 1972. For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are cruising through lunar space. The milestone occurred when the mission's Orion capsule was about 39,000 miles (62,764 kilometers) from the moon and roughly 232,000 miles (373,368 km) from Earth,…...
When the moon hits your eye from your Orion ship up high, that's a 'mare' for Artemis 2
16+ hour, 23+ min ago (498+ words) "The moon we are looking at is not the moon you see from Earth whatsoever." HOUSTON " NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts have officially struck "moon joy." "It is phenomenal," Christina Koch, Artemis 2 mission specialist and the first woman to fly to the…...
Artemis 2 astronauts are about to see one of the rarest skywatching sights of all — a solar eclipse from beyond the moon
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (644+ words) The quartet will see a total solar eclipse that evening as they slingshot around the moon's far side, in a flyby that breaks humanity's all-time distance record. And that eclipse will be something that none of us stuck on terra…...
Dozens of hidden star streams found in the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (615+ words) "It turns out that it's a lot easier to find things when you have a theoretical expectation of what you're looking for when you have a simple phenomenological picture." Astronomers have discovered dozens of faint ribbons of stars in the…...