NASA has released a cinematic video showcasing the Artemis I mission so far.
The 96-second presentation pulls together the best footage and photos captured since the mission’s launch on November 16. You can watch it below:
NASA used its new Space Laun…
The moon and Earth as seen from NASA’s Orion spacecraft during the Artemis I mission in November 2022. NASA
It’s amazing to believe that in just a couple of years from now, human beings will be gazing at the same view as shown in the image above.
The…
SpaceX is about to launch NASA’s Lunar Flashlight satellite, as well as HAKUTO-R Mission 1, the first privately led Japanese mission to land on the lunar surface.
The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the payloads will lift off from the Kennedy Space Center in…
NASA’s Orion capsule has set a new distance record for a spacecraft designed to carry humans to space.
On Monday, the uncrewed spacecraft, which is currently in a distant retrograde orbit (DRO) around the moon, reached a point 268,553 miles beyond Eart…
Just as NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft is about to reach a record distance from Earth for a human-rated spacecraft, the European Space Agency has released some awesome footage showing its recent launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The un…
This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a collection of galaxies, with an unusual merging pair as the star of the show. The merging galaxy pair Arp-Madore 417-391 is located 670 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Eri…
As well as admiring beautiful pictures of space, you can also listen to those pictures via sonifications. These take images and translate them into eerie sounds to illustrate the wonderful and strange phenomena of our universe. NASA’s latest sonificati…
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter recently completed a “short but significant” flight lasting a mere 18 seconds — 13 seconds shorter than its debut flight on the red planet in April 2021.
Despite the brief nature of the flight, the success of the short …
SpaceX sent one of its first-stage boosters skyward for the 11th time on Tuesday evening. However, unlike its 10 previous flights, this time it didn’t return.
The mission launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Stat…
Japan has given up on trying to become the fourth country to reach the moon.
The nation sent its Omotenashi CubeSat into orbit aboard NASA’s SLS rocket last week when it launched the Orion spacecraft toward the moon in the Artemis I mission.
But after …
Following its spectacular launch atop NASA’s new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, November 16, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on Monday performed a flyby of the moon that took it to within just 81 m…
Five days after launching from Earth aboard NASA’s next-generation Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the Orion spacecraft has performed a successful flyby of the moon, coming within just 81 miles of its surface. During its close encounter, it also snap…
If you’ve ever wanted to bask in the cosmic majesty of all that exists or feel the existential horror of your own smallness, a new interactive map will show you the entire observable universe.
You can view the map at mapoftheuniverse.net, where you’ll …
This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a beautiful cloud of dust and gas located in the constellation of Serpens. This cloud is a type of object called a dense core, with enough densely packed material that it could one day be the birt…
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft recently made a flyby of Earth, capturing some stunning images of our planet on its way to investigate the Trojan asteroids in the orbit of Jupiter. But Lucy has had some troubles in the form of a solar array that hasn’t fully de…