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Saturn and the moon will appear close together in the night sky on Friday, January 23. This celestial event, known as a conjunction, occurs when two astronomical bodies seem near each other from Earth ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A total lunar eclipse — commonly called a “blood moon” — will occur on Tuesday, Mar. 3, 2026 ...

In less than two weeks, NASA is scheduled to launch its Artemis 2 mission, the first crewed journey to the Moon in over half a century. The Space Launch Rocket has already been rolled out to the ...

NASA is inviting the public to send their names to the moon aboard the Artemis 2 mission. The Artemis 2 mission will carry four astronauts on a 10-day flight around the moon. This mission is the first ...

Michelle L.D. Hanlon is affiliated with For All Moonkind, Inc. a non-profit organization focused on protecting human cultural heritage in outer space. When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April ...

Artemis 2 will use the SLS to send a crew of four aboard an Orion spacecraft on a 10-day mission looping within 4,600 miles (7,400 km) of the Moon. The crew consists of Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot ...

A NASA astronaut on the ISS captured the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis 2, a mission that aims to bring four astronauts around the moon as soon as Feb. 6. When you purchase through links on ...

Blue Origin is targeting late February for the third launch of its mega-rocket, New Glenn. But it won’t be heading to the moon, as the company had previously suggested. The rocket will instead carry a ...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, an uncrewed NASA probe, captures images of Mare Orientale, a lunar site never seen directly with human eyes. Credit: NASA GSFC / Arizona State University / Getty ...

The first crewed mission around the moon in more than 50 years is coming up. Here’s how to see it at sites in and around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. By Ceylan Yeğinsu Feb. 3: This article was ...

When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as February 6, they’ll climb aboard NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide Orion spacecraft with the understanding that it has a known flaw — one that ...