NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

Dr. Marvel was, until recently, a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Artemis II’s journey ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

How will NASA get the Artemis II crew safely back on Earth? Here's the science behind splashdown

While splashdown can be harrowing – the spacecraft will hurdle through the atmosphere faster than the speed of sound and ...

How the Artemis II crew trained to observe and photograph the moon: A NASA science team geologist explains

The Artemis II crew has now broken the record — previously held by Apollo 13 — for the farthest distance any humans have ever ...
Ars Technica

A mission NASA might kill is still returning fascinating science from Jupiter

Jupiter’s colossal storms generate lightning flashes at least 100 times more powerful than those on Earth, according to scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. The findings were ...
The New York Times

Prominent Climate Scientist Resigns From NASA, Citing Trump’s Attack on Science

Kate Marvel, a well-known author, joins an estimated 95,000 people who have left federal science agencies since President Trump returned to the White House. By Eric Niiler Kate Marvel, a widely known ...
Scientific American

NASA spots comet reversing its spin in a first for science

Astronomers caught a comet in the act of reversing its spin. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, scientists noticed the never-before-seen behavior of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák (41P to its ...

How NASA Achieved the Historic Artemis II Splashdown

They were flying a spacecraft that had never carried crew before and entering the atmosphere on a trajectory that had never ...
CNN

NASA announces new Mars mission, reshapes goals on the moon

NASA’s new chief is reshaping the space agency’s goals, unveiling at an event in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday an ambitious vision that includes revamped plans for a moon base. While the space agency ...

Why NASA sent ‘organ chips’ of the Artemis II crew into space

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

NASA wants your hail photos

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Aviation Week

NASA Stresses Role Of Science In Human Moon-To-Mars Exploration

HOUSTON—Advances in science are to play a significant role in the revision of the Artemis program’s strategy that has NASA prepared to collaborate with industry and a broader academic community, a key ...
Science Daily

NASA’s Webb captures a bizarre brain-shaped nebula around a dying star

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed new details in a bizarre nebula that looks like a brain floating in space. Formed by a dying star, the “Exposed Cranium” nebula shows layered gas and a dark ...