It is the best of times, and it is (far from, actually,) the worst of time for NASA, with two big astronaut launches converging toward the same week, as a rare Arctic cold front pushes mission schedules into a logistical whirlwind. It’s a tale of NASA’s highest-profile mission in more than half a century —
Refresh 2026-01-30T23:44:33.209Z Artemis 2 moon launch may delay ISS Crew-12 mission The Crew-12 astronauts are (from left to right): NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. (Image credit: NASA) NASA’s plan to launch its Artemis 2 astronauts around the moon around Feb. 8 has
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. M87* and its cosmic blowtorch-like jet as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. | Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Lessing (Stanford University), E. Baltz (Stanford University), M. Shara (AMNH), J. DePasquale (STScI) Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), astronomers
A Russian satellite once used to inspect other spacecraft appears to have disintegrated in a graveyard orbit high above the Earth, according to ground-based imagery. The Luch/Olymp satellite, launched in 2014, is one of two secretive military Russian satellites that have been used to stalk spacecraft from the US and others in the geostationary belt
New details have emerged regarding Japan’s H3 rocket failure last month, revealing the strange way its payload—a navigation satellite—was lost prior to reaching its target orbit. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the seventh mission of its H3 rocket on December 21, 2025, carrying the Michibiki 5 satellite. Shortly after liftoff, the rocket’s second-stage engine
When we think of tentacled animals, we usually think of marine creatures. But many other species have them too. For example, the eyestalks of slugs and snails are actually specialised types of tentacles. And the star-nosed mole has 22 short tentacles around its nose which makes it one of the most sensitive organs in the
Neanderthals purposefully collected and positioned horned and antlered animal skulls in a cave in what is now Spain, suggesting that these extinct human relatives had complex cultural practices over 43,000 years ago, a new study finds. Des-Cubierta cave in central Iberia was initially discovered in 2009. In 2023, researchers announced the unusual discovery of an
Researchers at a Hackathon used AlphaGenome to search for the genetic causes of 29 undiagnosed diseases.Credit: Peter Kováč/Alamy When more than 100 researchers voluntarily locked themselves in a room last year to tackle some of the hardest conditions in medicine, they turned to artificial intelligence. As part of an effort, called the Undiagnosed Hackathon, to
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: As bacteria become increasingly (and worryingly) resistant to antibiotics, scientists are recruiting bacteriophages—a bacteria’s sworn evolutionary enemy—to fight against these troublesome “superbugs.” In a new study, scientists analyzed how this biological battle played out between a strain of Escherichia coli (E. coli) and a T7 bacteriophage,
NASA has been forced to delay a critical fueling test for its Artemis 2 moon rocket due to unusually cold weather forecasted to hit the Space Coast this weekend. The wet dress rehearsal for the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket was expected to begin last night (Jan. 29). An initial call to stations for Artemis