Artemis II’s astronauts are about to take off for a record-breaking flight around the moon, giving NASA a rare opportunity to study how deep spaceflight affects the human body.
After leaving Earth’s protective magnetic field, the four-person…
April 1, 2026
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A curious secret of color vision revealed by scientists
Knowing how your eye optimizes vision could have big implications for the progression of nearsightedness
A Los Angeles jury has delivered a verdict in the first bellwether social-media-addiction case to go to trial. On March 25 jurors found Meta and Google negligent in designing Instagram and YouTube and in failing to warn users about their risks….
April 1, 2026
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Artemis II’s journey to the moon, day by day
The four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will carry out a packed schedule during their trip around the moon’s far side
The sudden loss of the Sun would not be felt immediately on Earth, yet within minutes the planet would enter a rapid and irreversible transformation. Darkness would set in, temperatures would drop sharply, and the fundamental systems that…
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Live: NASA’s Artemis II moon mission heads to launch
The U.S. space agency is targeting Wednesday evening to loft four astronauts on what may be a record-breaking trip around the moon—see the…
A recent LIGO catalog update more than doubled the number of confirmed gravitational wave signals—ripples in spacetime caused by cataclysmic events. And already, astronomers are arriving at some shocking conclusions from…
Visible satellite imagery as of 11:45 a.m. ET shows an increase in cloud cover moving toward Kennedy Space Center, keeping meteorologists on high alert.
While the…
