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NASA launches a new plan, Artemis II returns to the launchpad, and a new rocket gets a launch with a view.
Astronomers have found archival data showing a one-of-a-kind event where a spinning comet appeared to reverse the direction of its rotation, NASA said in a...
If humans suddenly vanished, the planet wouldn't stay empty for long. Some animals would spread rapidly, others would struggle, and a few might quietly gain...
An underwater observatory recently detected a startlingly energetic cosmic neutrino. One possible cause involves a phenomenon that so far exists only in...
Something strange happened to a small comet near the Sun, and scientists didn't see it coming. The data revealed a behavior that challenges long-standing...
The four astronauts selected for NASA's Artemis II mission were due to arrive in Florida, entering the final phase of preparations for the first crewed...
NASA may not be able to move forward with all three of its planned Venus missions as budget pressures force difficult trade-offs across its planetary...
Pupil size in people with synesthesia changed depending on how bright or dark the perceived colors were.
Welcome to Edition 8.35 of the Rocket Report! The headlines this week are again dominated by the big changes afoot in NASA's exploration program,...
NASA's long-anticipated Artemis 2 mission — the first crewed flight to the moon in more than half a century — could lift off as soon as April 1.
Mars might look like the next big step for human exploration, but there's a hidden risk astronauts will face...its gravity.
A new deep-Earth analysis reveals colossal structures beneath Africa and the Pacific that may be older than complex life, and far more extreme than anyone...
NASA's Artemis programme plans a permanent lunar base near the south pole, driven by competition with China but needing broader justification for long-term...
In 2017 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope zoomed in on a comet as it passed around the sun. And then things took a more unusual turn.
The last Neanderthals to survive in Europe came from a single lineage that survived the worst period of the ice age, ancient DNA reveals.
A team of scientists looking at images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC) have discovered a rare impact event on the Moon,...
People are going to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, and to build off the success of the Artemis I uncrewed flight test a few years ago,...
The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to...
Experts say building a lunar colony within the next decade, as NASA and Elon Musk want, will require finding solutions to problems we don't yet fully...
What is nuclear electric propulsion and how is it different from radioisotope thermoelectric generators?
