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Artemis II astronauts brace for fiery return to Earth

The Artemis II crew, flying in their Orion capsule since launching from Florida last week, are due to splash down off the Southern California coast on Friday.

The NASA Artemis II crew, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen, Commander Reid Wiseman, and Pilot Victor Glover, embrace inside the Orion spacecraft on their way home following a flyby of the far side of the Moon on April 7, 2026.
NASA ASTRONAUT and Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels towards the Moon April 2, 2026.

WATCH: Artemis makes lunar flyby as moon mission breaks record for human distance from earth

NASA's Artemis II mission to fly by the moon, comprising of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, April 1, 2026

NASA’s Artemis II mission takes off with four astronauts for historic lunar journey

General view of the moon on March 30, 2026

Countdown to a lunar comeback: NASA readies astronauts for Moon journey


Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket deploys Mars satellites, sticks booster landing

A live Blue Origin webcast showed the rocket ascending from its launch tower through clear afternoon skies in a thunder of flames and billowing clouds of vapor.

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launches on NASA's EscaPADE mission, which is carrying two satellites to orbit Mars, from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, November 13, 2025.

NASA sets record straight with Kim Kardashian after she says lunar landing is fake

What convinced her, she said during the segment, was a video she saw online of an Aldrin interview. She said she interpreted his comments in that interview to mean the moon landing never occurred.

Kim Kardashian uses her phone, on the second day of the wedding festivities of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez, in Venice, Italy, June 27, 2025.

Breakfast in New York, dinner in Tel Aviv: NASA's new supersonic jet passes first test flight

Two decades after Concorde was grounded, NASA's X-59 makes history with a quieter approach to supersonic flight.

On its first flight, NASA's experimental quiet supersonic X-59 Quesst aircraft takes off from Runway 7 at Palmdale USAF Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, U.S. October 28, 2025

Israeli desert microorganisms survive harsh climate, offer clues to life on Mars

The findings may redefine the known boundaries of life on Earth and offer a model for what microbial life might look like on Mars or other arid planets.

Israelis swim in the "Disappearing Lake" in Timna Park, in the southern Israeli desert, on September 9, 2017

Giant asteroid 2025 FA22, 1000x the Chelyabinsk meteorite's mass, rushes past earth today

ESA says there is no impact risk after refined tracking; the virtual telescope project is streaming the flyby from tuscany.

Illustration: asteroid near earth.

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Turning Point USA executive director Charlie Kirk gestures on the inauguration day of U.S. President Donald Trump's second Presidential term, inside Capital One, in Washington, U.S. January 20, 2025.

New Evidence Suggests Ancient Microbial Life Existed on Mars

Perseverance found vivianite and greigite in 'leopard spots' at Cheyava Falls; officials say only an Earth return can confirm if these potential biosignatures are biological.

The “leopard spots” found in the rover’s images from mars.

Life on Mars? NASA rover finds potential sign of ancient alien life in Martian rocks

The discovery in Jezero Crater represents one of the best pieces of evidence to date about the possibility that Earth's planetary neighbor once harbored life.

A reddish rock nicknamed "Cheyava Falls", with features resembling leopard spots was discovered by NASA's Perseverance rover in Mars’ Jezero Crater in July 2024, in this handout photograph released on September 10, 2025

How the world won’t be destroyed: NASA found a solution to a worrying problem

NASA proved for the first time that a small spacecraft can deflect an asteroid. The DART mission collided with Dimorphos, showing humanity can protect itself from cosmic disasters.

The spacecraft is on its way to crash into the asteroid’s moon

Asteroid the size of 59 Avi Loebs to pass Earth on Wednesday, Aug. 27 - NASA

Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, kindly provided his measurements for use in this article during an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

An illustrative image of an asteroid near the Earth.