Flight Path Data Shows How Mosquitoes Target Humans
Scientists have quantified what draws mosquitoes to people—which could help make better, life-saving bug traps.
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Artemis II Returns From Historic Flight Around the Moon
After traveling a greater distance from Earth than any humans before them, the astronauts of Artemis II have safely returned home.
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How to watch the Artemis II astronauts return to Earth
The Orion capsule, carrying Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, is expected to land back to Earth after a nine-day mission that set a record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from our planet. After making a high-speed re-entry through the atmosphere, […]
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The Future of the Artemis Program Is Riding on Reentry
Entire space programs have been canceled after a failure in the reentry phase. In the final test for Artemis II, astronauts will travel at 32 times the speed of sound as they return from the moon.
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Interior design at 25,000 mph
As the Artemis II astronauts prepare for the most dramatic and potentially dangerous part of their mission – reentry into Earth’s atmosphere – the eyes of the world will be on the Orion capsule and the people inside it. Getting glimpses into the capsule during the mission, the public has been able to observe the […]
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No One Knows Where US Vaccine Policy Goes Next
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sweeping changes to federal vaccine guidance are paused for now. But even if they’re reversed, lasting damage has already been done.
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How and When to Watch the Artemis II Mission’s Return to Earth
Splashdown for the Artemis II crew is scheduled for Friday evening, and NASA will livestream the historic homecoming.
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NASA’s Artemis II mission to fly around the far side of the Moon
Humans haven’t set foot on the Moon since NASA’s Apollo 17 mission in 1972. Now, the space agency is racing to get back to the lunar surface under the umbrella of its Artemis program — a nod to the Greek goddess and twin sister of Apollo, whose name was given to NASA’s first program to […]
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Amazon’s Starlink competitor Leo gets a new date
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company’s space-internet service Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper) will “launch in mid-2026.” I’m going to assume that means proper commercial availability since the company already announced the start of an “enterprise preview” at the end of 2025, when the service was supposed to originally launch. Unlike SpaceX’s Starlink […]
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Artemis II Astronauts Witnessed 6 Meteorites Colliding With the Moon
The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of it is so large that the impact generates light that can be seen thousands of kilometers away.
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