Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman is raising his two kids as a single dad following the tragic death of his wife, Carroll.
“Carroll Taylor Wiseman, 46, passed away May 17 in Friendswood, Texas following a five year battle with cancer,” her 2020…

Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman is raising his two kids as a single dad following the tragic death of his wife, Carroll.
“Carroll Taylor Wiseman, 46, passed away May 17 in Friendswood, Texas following a five year battle with cancer,” her 2020…

The constant, omnidirectional hail of cosmic rays that stream through the Solar System from the galaxy beyond may not be as uniform as we thought.
According to China’s Chang’e 4 lander on the far side of the Moon, there’s a strange ‘cavity’…

Now, that’s some serious space plumbin’…
The four astronauts of the Artemis II mission are on their way to the moon’s orbit, but not without an…

April 3, 2026
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How NASA’s moon mission could help transform space medicine
Artemis II’s AVATAR experiment will see organs-on-a-chip travel to the moon and back, revealing how such a journey affects the…

The Artemis II mission astronauts have released their first video messages from space, giving the public a glimpse of deep-space travel roughly two days into their historic journey.
In the crew’s first broadcast, the astronauts describe the…

The Planetary Society is deeply disappointed by this budget proposal. The White House’s budgeting office has put forward the same budget cuts to NASA and NASA Science that were rejected by overwhelming bipartisan majorities in Congress last year….

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A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket will launch its heaviest-ever payload on Saturday morning (April 4), and you can watch the action live.

In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations, host Carol Sutton Lewis speaks with science writer Hanne Strager about her biography of Inge Lehmann, the pioneering Danish seismologist who discovered that Earth has a solid inner core.

April 3, 2026
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NASA’s Artemis II astronauts may catch a comet—if it can survive the sun
Amid a journey of celestial spectacles, the Artemis II astronauts may spot a comet—if it survives a dash past the sun