NASA’s Artemis 2 mission, which will launch astronauts to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years, comes with undeniable risk. But quantifying that risk is a tall order.
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NASA has completed the Artemis 2 flight readiness review and plans to launch the historic moon mission as soon as April 1.
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NASA is canceling the AXIS X-ray space telescope mission concept, saying it failed to meet key requirements. But the project leader thinks there’s another reason.
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NASA will give an update about its Artemis 2 moon launch plans today (March 12), and you can watch it live.
Northrop Grumman’s first “Cygnus XL” cargo ship departed the International Space Station Thursday morning (March 12), and is scheduled to deorbit and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere this weekend.
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New images from NASA’s DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.
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NASA has wasted no time in selecting the vehicle that will replace the upper stage on its new plans for a standardized Space Launch System rocket.
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The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in the nick of time.
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One of Europe’s two Proba-3 spacecraft suffered an anomaly last month, putting the future of the solar eclipse-creating mission in doubt.
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A big restructuring of NASA’s plans to land astronauts on the moon is adding missions and speeding up the timeline, but some hardware might have to be cut loose in the process.
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