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Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft captures moon craters in stunning flyby footage (video) Space fans, get your telescopes ready. The Orion spacecraft released a fresh video showing two humongous lunar craters during a close Artemis 1 flyby on Monday (Dec. 5). You can likely spot these moon monsters with your own gear.
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NASA's Artemis 1 Orion snaps gorgeous moon views as it sails over Apollo landing sites (video) Starting with the crewed Artemis 3 landing mission in 2025 or so, NASA plans to recover a wider range of rocks than basalts, which represented most of what Apollo astronauts found at their equatorial landing sites, Gross explained.
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Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft on track for return to Earth after moon flyby The uncrewed spacecraft flying on NASA's Artemis 1 mission passed a major milestone in its mission today (Dec. 5) when it successfully performed a 207-second engine burn while just just 79 miles (128 kilometers) above the lunar surface.
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Listen to the Artemis 1 Orion capsule phone home from deep space On Dec. 3, while Orion was departing its distant retrograde orbit around the moon, the spacecraft was broadcasting its data signal back to ground stations on Earth with the help of NASA's Deep Space Network. One ...
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Ancient human relative used fire, surprising discoveries suggest Explorers wriggling through cramped, pitch-black caves in South Africa claim to have discovered evidence that a human relative with a brain only one-third the size of ours used fire for light and cooking a few hundred thousand years ago.
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Happy anniversary, Apollo 17! Final moonwalking mission launched 50 years ago today It has now been 50 years since astronauts last launched to the moon. NASA's Apollo 17 mission lifted off on Dec. 7, 1972, sending Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans toward Earth's nearest neighbor. The trio arrived in orbit around the moon ...
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A black hole jet aimed at Earth When astronomers saw an immensely bright flash of light in deep space earlier this year, they naturally wondered what caused it. Now, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other institutions from around the world say ...
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Construction of World's Largest Radio Observatory Is Finally Under Way After 30 years of planning and negotiations, construction begins this week on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world's largest radio-astronomy observatory. The giant instrument—to be built across sprawling sites in Australia and Africa—will ...
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The Ankylosaur's Club-Tail Wasn't Only Swinging at T. Rex An illustration of two quadriped dinosaurs with spines on their backs and sledgehammer-like tails. An artist's rendering of Zuul crurivastator, whose name means "Zuul, destroyer of shins," in battle ...
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Future Mars Astronauts Could Snack on NASA's Space-Grown Tomatoes Thanks to NASA's Veggie endeavor, we may have a full-blown space restaurant one day. Getty Images. Since Thursday, flight engineer Nicole Mann has been ...
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