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NASA's upcoming crewed mission to the surface of the Moon will be named Artemis, after the Greek goddess of the moon and sister to Apollo.
Moon

NASA Just Gave the New Moon Program an Epic Name

A new study suggests that artificial intelligence might trick us into thinking we see alien technosignatures where none exist.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Might Make Us Mistakenly Think We’ve Found Aliens, Says Study

NASA has awarded Maxar Technologies a contract worth a maximum of $375 million to build the lunar Gateway's power and propulsion element.
NASA

NASA Just Hired the First Contractor to Build Lunar Space Station

New research reveals that extended trips to space are causing astronauts' brains to fill with excess fluid and swell, potentially damaging their eyesight.
Brain

Bad News, NASA: Astronauts’ Brains Are Filling With Liquid

A team out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has confirmed traces of water vapor being released above Jupiter's moon Europa.
Science & Energy

Scientists Confirm Water Vapor Above the Surface of Europa

The ESA is launching a space telescope called CHEOPS (Characterising Exoplanets Satellite) on Tuesday to study distant planets.
Science & Energy

Europe is Launching a Planet-Hunting Space Telescope Tomorrow

NASA’s InSight Mars Rover Runs Into Trouble Digging a Hole
Mars

NASA’s InSight Mars Rover Runs Into Trouble Digging a Hole

Boeing's Starliner missed its intended orbit for its first mission and burned up too much fuel to complete its planned journey to the ISS.
Boeing

Boeing’s Starliner Fails First Attempt to Reach Space Station

The Pentagon put out a call for vendors to develop a quantum system that could track spacecraft traveling too far away to use GPS.
Quantum Physics

The Pentagon Wants Quantum Sensors to Track Faraway Spacecraft

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which touched down in 2014, experienced a "hiccup" while booting up last week. For now, it's back online.
Mars

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Recovers After Serious Glitch

This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award
NASA

This Martian Greenhouse Concept Just Won a NASA Award

A team of researchers have developed a neural network that can predict if asteroids are on a collision course with Earth.
Artificial Intelligence

Neural Network Says These 11 Asteroids Could Smash Into Earth

NASA just released an image of a "cosmic candy cane" in the center of the galaxy. The unusually shaped cloud is likely linked to active star formation.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover “Cosmic Candy Cane” in Milky Way Galaxy

Musk took the time to reflect on a bizarre and intense number of weeks in an interview with Bloomberg, noting that some of his tweets were "extremely dumb."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Some of My Tweets “Were Definitely Extremely Dumb”

Canada agrees to invest C$150 million in the U.S.'s Lunar Gateway, becoming the nation's first international partner in the ambitious space program.
Moon

Canada Commits $150 Million to NASA’s Moon-Orbiting Space Station

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell says SpaceX plans to launch a crewed mission in its Crew Dragon spacecraft sometime in May — just two months away.
Science & Energy

SpaceX President: We Plan to Launch a Crewed Mission in May

Astronomers have discovered that a massive rotating disk galaxy called the Wolfe Disk dates back to only ten percent of our universe's current age.
Future Society

Astronomers: Ancient “Wolfe Disk” Should Never Have Existed

NASA approved the preliminary designs of a spacecraft expected to visit the asteroid Psyche in 2022. When it gets there, NASA won't know what to expect.
NASA

NASA Is Gearing up to Visit a Shattered, Volcanic Asteroid

Boeing just sent NASA its proposal for a crewed lunar lander that could ferry astronauts to the Moon by 2024 via NASA's planned "Lunar Gateway."
Moon

Here’s How Boeing is Planning to Get Astronauts to the Moon

Astronomers think that a bizarre exoplanet called TOI-849b is the stripped core of a gas giant that for some reason or another lost its atmosphere.
Science & Energy

Bizarre Exoplanet Might Be a Gas Giant That Lost its Gas