Artemis II Crewed Moon Launch Set for April 1, 2026
NASA's Artemis II, the first crewed flight around the Moon since Apollo, is set for a 6:24 p.m. ET launch window on April 1 carrying four astronauts on a 10-day mission.
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Space Space Coast Shattered Its Own Launch Record in 2025
Florida's Space Coast set an all-time record of 109 orbital launches in 2025, up from 93 in 2024, with Artemis II and multiple Starlink missions packing the week of March 30, 2026.
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Space New Portrait Reveals the Oldest Recorded Supernova in History
Fresh imaging of RCW 86, the remnant of a supernova Chinese astronomers recorded as a guest star in AD 185, reveals new details about the oldest documented stellar explosion.
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Space Mars Dust Storms Are Blasting the Planet's Water Into Space
An international study finds localized Mars dust storms push water vapor to 10 times normal levels in the atmosphere, revealing a new mechanism for the planet's ancient water loss.
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Space Earth Faces Unexplained Surge of Fireballs in Early 2026
The American Meteor Society reports fireball activity with sonic booms every three days since January, with 79% of mass sightings producing sonic booms in a historic outlier.
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Space NASA Announces SR-1 Freedom Nuclear Rocket for Mars by 2028
NASA unveiled SR-1 Freedom, a nuclear-electric spacecraft launching before end of 2028 that repurposes canceled Gateway hardware with a uranium fission reactor for the first US deep-space nuclear mission.
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Space US Marks 40 Years Since Man First Walked on the Moon
The Apollo 11 anniversary continues to resonate as NASA's Artemis program brings lunar exploration back into the present tense, connecting 1969's achievement to 2026's ambitions.
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