Artemis II’s current orbit around the Moon draws a connection to Yuri Gagarin, one of space travel’s earliest pioneers. This event, featured in the Pittsburgh Post-gazette, explores stargazing’s continuing significance, blending past achievements with new frontiers.
NASA’s Artemis 3 mission no longer plans a lunar touchdown, and the role of SpaceX’s Starship remains uncertain. The revamped approach spotlights how NASA is evolving its human spaceflight program to meet changing goals and technical realities.
An AI-powered analysis of Hubble’s older images has detected hundreds of new cosmic anomalies. These elusive objects, never before seen by human eyes, offer a fresh frontier in the pursuit of understanding our universe.
Two Johns Hopkins affiliates have joined NASA’s 2025 astronaut class, selected from over 8,000 applicants. Their inclusion underscores the university’s longstanding commitment to pushing scientific boundaries and propelling human exploration forward.
MIT master’s student Taylor Hampson is taking an unconventional approach to rocket science by modeling a nuclear-powered engine. His research aims to transform space exploration by heating rocket propellant with nuclear energy.
A surprising new X-ray image of EURECA, the European Retrievable Carrier that flew on Space Shuttle Atlantis in 1992, offers a rare glimpse of its metallic interior. The photo, featured as the “space photo of the day” for December 4, 2025, highlights our enduring fascination with space exploration.
NASA is preparing to launch six small satellites in summer 2026 as part of its SunRISE program. These satellites will join forces to pinpoint the direction of harmful solar particles, ultimately helping to protect astronauts and critical satellite infrastructure in orbit.
NASA has chosen 10 new astronaut candidates from a field of 8,000 applicants. Significantly, 6 of these recruits are women, highlighting a growing shift toward gender inclusivity in space exploration. With this announcement, they join a highly exclusive group that now numbers just 370 individuals.
New observations from the James Webb Telescope reveal that the ice on Jupiter’s moon Europa is constantly changing, suggesting the presence of a subsurface ocean beneath its frozen crust.
