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NASA launches Artemis II crew on 10-day lunar mission
NASA sent four astronauts into space on Wednesday evening for a 10-day journey around the moon, marking the most ambitious US spaceflight in decades.
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3I/Atlas May Be Nearly 12 Billion Years Old
New analysis suggests the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas could date back almost to the dawn of the Milky Way, making it one of the oldest objects ever observed passing through our Solar System.
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The companies betting they can mine the moon
A new class of space companies is raising money to extract Helium-3 from lunar soil, even as scientists question the economics, the law, and whether the moon should become the next place humans dig up first and ask questions later.
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Artemis II is set for launch. Here is what NASA’s next moon mission will do
NASA says Artemis II is cleared for launch, with weather now the main variable. The four-astronaut mission will loop around the moon, test the Orion spacecraft in deep space and push the agency one step closer to a permanent lunar presence.
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Italian astronaut to walk on the Moon under new Italy-US space deal
An agreement signed in Washington by Adolfo Urso and NASA chief Jared Isaacman brings Italy’s lunar habitat module into Artemis and sets up a historic Italian Moonwalk, according to ASI president Teodoro Valente.
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NASA astronaut’s viral ‘alien’ turns out to be a potato with ambitions
A strange, tentacled object photographed aboard the International Space Station had social media imagining extraterrestrials, until Don Pettit explained it was simply a sprouting potato named “Spudnik-1.”
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Artemis II rocket rolls to the pad after repairs as NASA eyes April 1 launch
NASA has moved the 98-meter Artemis II rocket back to the launchpad after repairs. If checks hold, the crewed lunar fly-around could launch as soon as April 1, following a two-month delay caused by hydrogen and helium issues.