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50 Years After the Apollo 17 Mission, the Moon Looks Closer Than Ever

Astronauts from NASA said goodbye to the moon for the last time on Dec. 14, 1972. The somberness of the anniversary is offset by the scenes of Artemis I's recently concluded mission.

NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft reaches port in San Diego

NASA's Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft has made it back to terra firma. Orion reached Naval Base San Diego on Tuesday (Dec. 13) aboard the USS Portland, the U.S. Navy recovery ship that fished the capsule out of the Pacific Ocean on Sunday (Dec.

Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Blast of 192 Lasers

Scientists studying fusion energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced on Tuesday that they had crossed a major milestone in reproducing the power of the sun in a laboratory. Scientists for decades have said that fusion, ...

The Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight. Here's how to see it

This is largely considered one of the best meteor showers of the year, but tonight's viewing conditions will be tricky.

Private Japanese moon lander snaps 1st photos in deep space

"While initial checkout operations continue in ispace's Mission Control Center (MCC), we have also received the first images taken by our lander-mounted camera! This is an image of the Earth about 19 hours after separation from the launch vehicle," ispace ...

Massive Martian dust devil passed over the Perseverance rover, and it recorded the eerie sounds

CNN

CNN

Dust devils, or dust whirlwinds, are common on Mars, and they're part of the weather patterns on the red planet. Other missions have gathered images, weather data and dust measurements of these ...

60 years ago today, a spacecraft zipped past planet Venus for the 1st time ever

Human-built spacecraft have been exploring other planets for a full 60 years. On Dec. 14, 1962, a NASA spacecraft called Mariner 2 flew past Venus in the first-ever planetary flyby. The maneuver gave the spacecraft 42 minutes to observe what scientists ...

With success of Artemis I, when will NASA fly Artemis II?

Phys.Org

Phys.Org

They included a successful launch atop the Space Launch System rocket, maneuvers during lunar orbit and ultimate return of Orion that featured a record-setting reentry for a human-rated spacecraft hitting 24,464 mph that generated temperatures near 5,000 ...

Arianespace targets triple satellite launch today

An Arianespace rocket will send three satellites to orbit today (Dec. 13), and you can watch the whole thing live for free. An Ariane 5 rocket will launch no earlier than 3:30 p.m. EST (2030 GMT or 5:30 p.m. local time) from the Guiana Space Center in ...

Antihelium Offers Hope in the Search for Dark Matter

WIRED

WIRED

On Monday, Vorobyev's team announced that they'd generated about 18,000 antihelium nuclei—and more notably, that they used their result to calculate the odds that Earth-based detectors could capture antihelium drifting in from space, where it might signify ...