NASA may not launch its Artemis 2 moon mission just a few weeks from now after all. On Saturday morning (Feb. 21), the agency announced that it had detected a problem with Artemis 2‘s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is sitting on Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The issue, a helium-flow
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The Lunar Gateway is planned space station that will orbit the moon. It is part of the NASA‑led Artemis program. Artemis aims to return humans to the moon, establishing a sustainable presence there for scientific
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new moon rocket suffered another setback Saturday, almost certain to bump astronauts’ first lunar trip in decades into spring. The space agency revealed the latest problem just one day after targeting March 6 for the Artemis II mission, humanity’s first flight to the moon in more than half a
If we’re willing to think about the future, the farther ahead we extrapolate, the farther along the inevitable path toward our thermodynamic end state: the heat death of the Universe. Star-formation will eventually end, and then the last shining stars will burn out. Galaxies will dissociate due to gravitational interactions, ejecting all masses and leaving
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new moon rocket suffered another setback Saturday, putting next month’s planned launch with astronauts in jeopardy. The space agency revealed the latest problem just one day after targeting March 6 for humanity’s first flight to the moon in more than half a century. Overnight, the flow of helium to the
Photo by Yvonne Vávra. by Yvonne Vávra One by one, they’re disappearing. The ice banks that rose after last month’s epic snowstorm are almost finished collapsing into grimy mounds along the curb. At first, they felt majestic and dramatic in a good way. But quickly, they became barricades that were hard to navigate, in ever-deepening
In science fiction movies and shows like “The Martian” or “For All Mankind“, Mars is often depicted as a challenging but ultimately survivable environment for humanity. Though conditions might be difficult, with enough rugged ingenuity and perseverance, mankind is able conquer the Red Planet in these stories in the ways we have the frontiers of
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi have used rare total solar eclipses to gain unprecedented insights into the turbulent structures of the sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. This discovery, resulting from over a decade of observations, reveals how these turbulent features, previously hidden, can travel vast distances and play a key role in the formation
Detected in 2021, the Amaterasu particle ranks among the most energetic cosmic rays ever observed, carrying an estimated 244 exa-electronvolts. Its apparent arrival from a nearly empty region of space left astronomers perplexed. A new statistical analysis now points instead toward a nearby star-forming galaxy. Recorded in May 2021 by Utah’s Telescope Array Project, the