by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Science
If anyone can offer advice to the four NASA astronauts slated to launch Wednesday on a trip around the moon, it’s Harrison Schmitt.Schmitt, 90, left his bootprints on the lunar surface in 1972, as part of Apollo 17 — the final mission in the program, which was the...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Science
The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four astronauts are preparing to take off on the mission of a lifetime — circumnavigating the moon and returning humans to deep space for the first time in five decades.After nearly...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Science
The countdown to launch of the Artemis II mission, NASA’s first piloted moonshot in half a century, proceeded smoothly Tuesday as engineers and technicians prepared the agency’s giant Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule for fueling and...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Science
The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four astronauts are preparing to take off on the mission of a lifetime — circumnavigating the moon and returning humans to deep space for the first time in five decades.After nearly...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Science
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The cool wind of galaxy M82 drives gas and dust up to 40,000 light-years from its core, as shown here using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and...
by News Feed Editor | Mar 31, 2026 | Science
On Sept. 12 1962, President John F. Kennedy famously declared that the United States would “go to the moon … and do it first, before this decade is out.”“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things,” Kennedy said, “not because they are easy but...
