NASA’s Artemis II mission will transport four astronauts around the Moon, bringing the agency one step closer to sending the first astronauts to Mars. Throughout Artemis II, astronaut voice, images, video, and vital mission data must traverse thousands of miles, carried on signals from NASA’s communications systems. Through Artemis, NASA is establishing an enduring presence
Science & Exploration 29/01/2026 2430 views 44 likes The crew of four will launch no earlier than Wednesday 11 February at 11:00 GMT/12:00 CET (06:00 EST) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, USA. The next available opportunities are Thursday 12 February at 10:38 GMT/11:38 CET (05:38 EST) and Friday 13 February at 10:15 GMT/11:15 CET (05:15 EST). The members of Crew-12 are (from
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a galaxy that existed just shortly after the Big Bang, and what astronomers have found is challenging key theories about the Universe. The galaxy is so far away, it appears to us as it existed just 280 million years after the Big Bang. That’s when the Universe was
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable new planet about 146 light-years away which is Earth-sized and has conditions similar to Mars. The candidate planet, named HD 137010 b, orbits a sun-like star and is estimated to be 6% larger than Earth. An international team of scientists in Australia, the UK, the US and Denmark identified
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Amanda Askell, Anthropic’s in-house philosopher, is sounding pretty conflicted about whether AI models can be conscious and have feelings. The flip side of that: she thinks it’s a possibility they already do — which would be a very fringe and controversial position. But, she takes pains
Nearly 28,000 years ago, a teenage boy was buried with care in a cave in what is now northern Italy, a spectacular shell cap covering his head and a flint blade grasped in his right hand. Archaeologists have now determined his cause of death: a bear attack. “He probably lost consciousness during the event and
A prehistoric tool uncovered decades ago in southern England has now been firmly identified as a deliberately crafted elephant bone hammer, reshaping views of early human ingenuity in Europe. The finding, recently detailed in a study published in Science Advances, shows that human ancestors living around 500,000 years ago were capable of complex planning, material
Halley’s comet bears the name of the astronomer who famously first described its movements through space, but he wasn’t the first to discover its periodic orbit past Earth, new research suggests. Halley’s comet is named for British astronomer Edmond Halley, who pieced the space rock’s orbit together in 1705 through a combination of his own
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists believe they’ve deduced why prehistoric Ediacara Biota fossils have remained preserved for millions of years. The fossils of these soft-bodied creatures from before the Cambrian Explosion have perplexed scientists for generations. Experts now believe that sand buried the organisms, which aided in the unusual preservation
NASA’s Curiosity rover has delivered a rare nighttime glimpse of the Martian surface by illuminating a drill site nicknamed Nevado Sajama, offering scientists a fresh way to study Mars after dark. The image, released by NASA Science, was captured using onboard LED lights. A Nighttime Experiment Unlike Anything Seen Before On Mars For most of