Artemis, Moon and space exploration
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Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high.
The space agency is targeting Wednesday, April 1, to launch a crew of four astronauts on a potentially record-breaking journey around the moon and back The U.S. space agency’s Skyfall project calls for sending robotic helicopters to Mars on a nuclear-powered spacecraft before the end of Donald Trump’s presidency
Modern space exploration is driven as much by processors as it is by rockets. And it remains the ultimate test of our collective ingenuity.
This afternoon, as part of the Artemis II mission, a 322-foot rocket is set to lift off, sending a crew of Americans and a Canadian on a 10-day journey around the moon and back. No landing this time, but they’ll push farther from Earth than any humans ever have.
A new era of high-speed space exploration may be on the horizon as researchers at the University of Basel have successfully tested a semi-autonomous, four-legged robot capable of
A test flight by four astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis II around the moon made history on April 6. NASA’s Artemis II test flight — the first crewed lunar flyby in 50-plus years — broke a record for human spaceflight’s farthest distance,
Center for Space Medicine Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Aleksandra Stankovic, breaks down the effects of space travel on the brain.
Letters: Readers respond to an article by Zoe Williams in which she argued the space race was pointless