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You’ve probably heard it by now: NASA’s Artemis 2 mission was the first to launch astronauts to fly by the moon in more than 50 years. But that was just the first of the firsts for this mission.
As the four Artemis astronauts approached a high point of their lunar mission—getting slung around the far side of the moon—NASA staffers crowded into Houston’s famed mission control room Monday for a team photo.
President Donald Trump on Monday night (April 6) hailed the courage and grit of NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts after their historic flyby around the moon.
Why doesn’t Artemis II land on the Moon?
A colossal ocean current encircling Antarctica—stronger than all the world’s rivers combined—played a far more complex role in shaping Earth’s climate than scientists once thought. New research shows it didn’t form just because ocean gateways opened, but required shifting continents…
Shallow groundwater aquifers are driest in northern and central Florida in this map based on observations acquired on March 30, 2026, by the GRACE-FO (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On) satellites. NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin Florida is among the wettest…
A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once believed. Dating back over 540 million years, the fossils…
Earth may have won a cosmic chemistry lottery. Researchers found that during the planet’s earliest formation, oxygen had to be in an extremely narrow “Goldilocks zone” for two life-essential elements, phosphorus and nitrogen, to stay where life could use them.…
A medieval ophthalmologist who translated Greek works by Galen, Hippocrates, and Plato into Arabic played a pivotal role in shaping Western medical scholarship, according to a study published in the journal Cogent Arts and Humanities.
NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts viewed parts of the moon never before seen with human eyes during their epic lunar flyby today (April 6) —and set a spaceflight record in the process.