The unprecedented human experiment of Artemis II is only just beginning

Experiments aboard Orion are capturing insights about astronaut health that were never recorded during the Apollo program.

A tiny experiment using Artemis II astronaut cells could reshape medicine

Chips seeded with the astronauts’ bone marrow cells circled the moon to help probe how deep-space flight affects human ...

The climate change scientists racing to dim the sun

Ian McEwan’s recent novel, What We Can Know, is set in a semi-underwater Britain in the year 2119. A few decades on from a ...

A silk figure floats at the edge of space

A silk-covered mannequin was launched into the stratosphere 33 km above Earth in a project that’s part science experiment, ...
Nature

Artemis II relied on European science: what that means for the region’s space ambitions

The Artemis II mission is a success for the European Space Agency, as well as for NASA. Will Europe crew its own lunar ...

Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, a Dark Matter Detector Is Ready to Make History

The SuperCDMS is chilled to right around absolute zero, and its detectors are primed to hunt dark matter particles.

The food on Artemis II is surprisingly tasty—but it still won’t be good enough for Mars

Future missions will need longer expiration dates and grow-it-yourself options. Luckily, labs around the world are working on ...
EurekAlert!

Phengite identified as key carrier of halogens into Earth’s deep mantle

A new study led by Prof. WANG Yu from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Artemis II's Record-Setting Flyby Paves Way for Moon Base and Beyond

WASHINGTON, D.C. / ACCESS Newswire / April 6, 2026 / NASA's Artemis II mission has broken the record for the farthest distance humans have traveled from Earth. At 1:57 pm EDT today, the Artemis II ...
FLYING Magazine

Artemis II Astronauts Fly Around Moon—and Farther Than Any Human

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) astronaut Jeremy Hansen—the ...

Highlights from Artemis II’s Historic Journey Around the Moon

As they traveled back toward Earth following a solar eclipse and a communications blackout, President Trump called the space ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Newly discovered fossils give scientists first look at the evolution of early complex animals

Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants ...