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Nutella Jar Drifts Through Big Artemis II Moment

'This was not product placement,' NASA says

(Newser) - It's one small segment in a video from the Artemis II mission, and one big moment for Nutella. As the four astronauts became the farthest people ever to travel from Earth on Monday—252,752 miles out during a loop around the moon—a jar of Nutella was seen...

Houston, You Are Again &#39;Space City&#39;
Behold, the Return
of 'Space City'
Apr 6, 2026 7:06 PM CDT

Behold, the Return of 'Space City'

Artemis II launch rekindles Houston's NASA excitement amid Texas' booming space industry

(Newser) - Houston's space swagger just got some fresh fuel. The New York Times reports that Wednesday's launch of NASA's Artemis II mission—the 10-day flight that will send four astronauts around the moon—has put Houston's Johnson Space Center back in the spotlight and reminded residents why...

Artemis Crew Names Crater After Commander's Late Wife

Reid Wiseman's wife Carroll died in 2020

(Newser) - Moon maps are getting two new labels—both chosen by the astronauts who are flying around it. As the lunary flyby began on Monday, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen radioed Mission Control to say the Artemis II crew wants an unnamed crater between the Orientale basin and the Ohm impact crater...

Artemis II Astronauts Just Broke Distance Record

They pass record set by Apollo 13 ahead of lunar flyby

(Newser) - The four Artemis II astronauts have now traveled farther from our planet than any other Earthlings in history. At around 2pm, just ahead of their seven-hour lunar flyby, the astronauts passed the distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 astronauts James Lovell, John Swigert, and Fred Haise...

Artemis II Astronauts Now More Than Halfway to Moon

Nobody's been this far into space since 1972

(Newser) - Now more than halfway to the moon, the Artemis II astronauts were toasted by Canada on Saturday as they prepared for their historic lunar fly-around to push deeper into space than even the Apollo astronauts. The three Americans and one Canadian will reach their destination Monday, photographing the mysterious lunar...

China May Have Tamed Its Arid &#39;Sea of Death&#39;
China May Have Tamed
Its Arid 'Sea of Death'
new study
Apr 3, 2026 11:45 AM CDT

China May Have Tamed Its Arid 'Sea of Death'

Taklamakan Desert is slowly turning a little greener

(Newser) - One of the world's driest places—the massive Taklamakan Desert in China—is ever so slowly becoming less of a desert. New research finds that decades of tree- and shrub-planting along the edges of the 130,000 square-mile desert is turning the area into a carbon sink, meaning it...

Artemis Shares Stunning First Photos of Earth
Artemis
Sends Back
Its First Images
Apr 3, 2026 11:01 AM CDT

Artemis Sends Back Its First Images

Orion capsule is currently about 90K miles above Earth

(Newser) - NASA's latest moonshot just delivered its first postcard home. The agency released the initial images from Artemis II, showing Earth in the background as the Orion spacecraft loops in high orbit with four astronauts aboard, reports USA Today . The crew—NASA's Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and...

Humans Leave Earth Orbit for the First Time Since 1972

Artemis II astronauts will fly by moon on Monday

(Newser) - NASA's Artemis II astronauts fired their engines and blazed toward the moon Thursday night, breaking free of the chains that have trapped humanity in shallow laps around Earth in the decades since Apollo. The translunar ignition came 25 hours after liftoff, putting the three Americans and a Canadian on...

Artemis II Crew Clears Glitches, Prepares to Leave Orbit

First day of mission included toilet, email issues

(Newser) - The four Artemis II astronauts are preparing to head toward the moon after an eventful day in orbit that included a broken toilet and an email meltdown. The four astronauts—NASA's Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, and Victor Glover, plus Canadian Jeremy Hansen—also ran into a communications blackout shortly...

4 Astronauts Await Liftoff on Moon Mission
4 Astronauts Blast Off
on Moon Mission
UPDATED
Apr 1, 2026 5:49 PM CDT

4 Astronauts Blast Off on Moon Mission

Tens of thousands gathered to watch historic NASA launch

(Newser) - Four astronauts embarked on a high-stakes flight around the moon Wednesday, humanity's first lunar voyage in more than half a century and the thrilling leadoff in NASA's push toward a landing in two years. Carrying three Americans and one Canadian, the 32-story rocket rose from NASA's Kennedy...

What to Know About the Artemis II Mission

NASA's fly-by is humanity's first trip to the moon in 54 years

(Newser) - It's humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. In a throwback to Apollo, NASA's Artemis II mission will send four astronauts on a lunar fly-around. They'll hurtle several thousand miles beyond the moon, hang a U-turn, and then come straight back. No circling around the...

Second-Grader Designs Mascot for Artemis II Mission

Plush zero gravity indicator was one of thousands of entries in global NASA student contest

(Newser) - NASA's next trip around the moon will have a pint-size passenger with elementary-school credentials. When Artemis II launches as early as April 1 , the four astronauts will be joined by "Rise," a small plush doll created by second-grader Lucas Ye of Mountain View, California. It will serve...

Astronaut: Mystery Illness Was 'Completely Out of the Blue'

NASA's Mike Fincke says doctors still don't know why he suddenly fell ill on ISS

(Newser) - The astronaut who prompted NASA's first medical evacuatio n earlier this year said Friday that doctors still don't know why he suddenly fell sick at the International Space Station. Four-time space flier Mike Fincke said he was eating dinner on Jan. 7 after prepping for a spacewalk the...

NASA Scraps Lunar Space Station, Opts for Moon Base

Shift aims to support sustained Artemis operations on lunar surface

(Newser) - NASA's blueprint for returning to the moon just got a major rewrite. New agency chief Jared Isaacman on Tuesday scrapped plans for the Lunar Gateway space station in orbit around the moon, saying its components will instead be folded into a $20 billion moon base over the next seven years,...

Cargo Spacecraft Suffers Glitch En Route to ISS

Antennas did not deploy on unmanned Russian ship

(Newser) - A crucial set of "eyes" failed to open on Russia's latest cargo run to the International Space Station. After Monday's launch from Kazakhstan, the uncrewed Progress 94 spacecraft did not deploy two automated rendezvous antennas, a glitch that could block its planned self-guided docking, NASA says. The ship is...

The Meteor Hit, Then Came the Hunters

Treasure seekers race to find valuable fragments for the thrill, science, and cash

(Newser) - The space rock's crash was loud, but what followed was quiet competition, reports the New York Times . After a meteor broke apart over northeast Ohio last week, roughly two dozen meteorite hunters descended on the countryside, armed with satellite maps, Doppler radar plots, and in some cases, stacks of cash....

NASA's Much-Thwarted Moon Rocket Makes an 11-Hour Trip

But just to the launch pad, kids, in hopes of an April 1 trip around the moon

(Newser) - For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month. If the latest repairs work and everything else goes NASA's way, the Space Launch System could blast off...

Hubble Captures Epic Comet Explosion&mdash;by Luck
Hubble Captures Epic
Comet Explosion—by Luck
NEW STUDY
Mar 19, 2026 7:58 AM CDT

Hubble Captures Epic Comet Explosion—by Luck

Accidental observation gives Hubble its first look at early days of comet fragmentation

(Newser) - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just stumbled into the kind of cosmic moment astronomers usually only dream about: a comet caught in the act of coming apart. Research team members were unable to view their initial comet target because of "technical constraints," so they focused instead on Comet C/2025...

Repaired Moon Rocket to Shoot for April Launch

Artemis II is scheduled to return to the pad next week

(Newser) - NASA cleared its moon rocket on Thursday for an April launch with four astronauts after completing the latest round of repairs. The 322-foot rocket is scheduled to roll out of the hangar and back to the pad next week at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the AP reports, leading to...

NASA Satellite Is About to Plunge Back to Earth
NASA Satellite
Plunges Back to Earth
UPDATED
Mar 12, 2026 11:35 AM CDT

NASA Satellite Plunges Back to Earth

Van Allen A probe re-entered atmosphere over eastern Pacific early Wednesday

(Newser) - An old NASA satellite crashed back to Earth early Wednesday over the eastern Pacific, apparently without harming any unlucky Earthlings. The US Space Force said the Van Allen Probe A came in west of the Galapagos Islands after its uncontrolled re-entry at 6:37am Eastern, the AP reports. The spacecraft,...

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