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Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. (Image Credit: NASA)

It's OK to love the moon mission

Troy Farah
Elon Musk, during a news conference with President Donald Trump on May 30, 2025 inside the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Musk’s moon mission divides Trump world

Sophia Tesfaye
An astronaut watering a plant (Caspar Benson/Getty Images )

Tea thrives in lunar soil, experts find

Francesca Giangiulio
Jim Lovell died this week at age 97. The former astronaut is most well-known as the cool-headed commander of the storied and problematic Apollo 13 mission. He was a lifelong promoter of space exploration. (Bettmann / Contributor / Getty Images)

Apollo 13 hero Jim Lovell dies at age 97

CK Smith
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Universe starscape 3D illustration with colorful soundwave. (Getty Images / EzumeImages)

Space is noisy. We just can't hear it

Elizabeth Hlavinka
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft took this image of Ceres’ south polar region on May 17, 2017. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)

Dwarf planet could reveal origin of life

Elizabeth Howell
Nadir view of the Martian South Pole. (Getty Images / Stocktrek Images)

Did it once snow on Mars?

Elizabeth Howell
Render of Planet Earth. (DrPixel / Getty Images)

NASA closer to predicting space weather

Elizabeth Howell
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A small town glows beneath a starry sky. (harpazo_hope / Getty Images)

Creatures of the night, unite

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Satellite hurtling through space burning up as it enters the atmosphere. (PaulFleet / Getty Images)

Falling space debris: A growing threat

Joanna Thompson
Illustration of vapour plumes erupting from the surface of Enceladus, Saturns sixth largest moon, created on July 26, 2018. (Illustration by Tobias Roetsch/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Antarctic ice informs search for aliens

Elizabeth Howell
Seine et Marne on march the 6th 2021 at night. Taurus constellation. On this image we can see the effect of the movements of artificial satellites through the sky. On the left we can see the planet Mars, on the right the famous stars cluster the Pleiades (M45). From the bottom right the luminous trail of the satellite STARLINK-1269, and from the top the luminous trail of the satellite STARLINK-1577. (Christophe Lehenaff / Getty Images)

Satellites are censoring the stars

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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A footprint left on the surface of the moon by one of the Apollo 11 astronauts during their historic lunar EVA, 20th July 1969. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

Moon dust poses problem for astronauts

Elizabeth Howell
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander Butch Wilmore (L) and Pilot Suni Williams walk out of the Operations and Checkout Building on June 05, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How space impacts health of astronauts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Illustration of an asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/buradaki)

The hard science of asteroid collisions

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Mars (Getty Images//Cobalt88)

We now know why Mars is so red

Matthew Rozsa
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The Small Magellanic Cloud, a member of the Local Group of galaxies and a companion of our Milky Way Galaxy. (Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

A recipe for baby stars: Fluffy clouds

Matthew Rozsa
Spinning Galaxy (Getty Images/cokada)

One Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies?

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Asteroid headed toward Earth (Getty Images/Science Photo Library/ANDRZEJ WOJCICKI)

Increased odds of asteroid hitting Earth

Matthew Rozsa
Jupiter seen from the surface of volcanic moon Io. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Heavy volcanic eruption on Jupiter's Io

Matthew Rozsa
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Asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/dzika_mrowka)

Life ingredients discovered on asteroid

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. (Courtesy of NASA)

Americans support asteroid defense funds

Robin George Andrews - Undark
Highly detailed crescent Moon (Getty Images/Javier Zayas Photography)

NASA awards $24 million for moon bases

Matthew Rozsa
James Webb space telescope in deep space researching far galaxies. (Getty Images/dima_zel)

"Little red dots" space mystery solved

Matthew Rozsa
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