Artemis astronauts to shed light on space health risks

While the Artemis II astronauts have been protected from the icy vacuum of space on their journey, their bodies have nonetheless been left exposed to possibly high levels of radiation—a danger of ...
UN Environment Programme

Humanity’s presence in space is expanding. So, too, are the environmental challenges.

The space race is accelerating, but its environmental footprint is growing. Discover how space activity is affecting Earth’s ...

Orion helium leak no threat to Artemis II reentry, but will require redesign

Apart from pesky issues with the spacecraft’s toilet and waste disposal system, most of the Artemis II mission has proceeded ...

Artemis II Crew Farts Are a ‘Problem’ for the Spacecraft, Expert Says

A science expert recently broke down how farts passed by the NASA’s Artemis II crew could pose a problem during their ongoing ...

Houston, we have a problem ... with the toilet

After a successful trip around the Moon, everything has been going smoothly on the Orion spacecraft’s journey back to Earth – ...

After quick maintenance, Artemis II's zero-g toilet is working again

The mission is due to end with a Pacific splashdown on April 10. NASA is counting on the test flight to kickstart the entire ...

NASA’s historic Artemis II mission shows space travel is littered with risk — and experts are worried: ‘Off by an inch, you’re in big trouble’

The Artemis II crew will be the first humans in decades to fly beyond low-Earth orbit, meaning that they won’t be protected ...
USA Today

NASA's DART mission didn't just change the orbit of asteroid it hit

NASA's DART mission, which tested a planetary defense strategy, successfully changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. The mission also unexpectedly altered the orbit of Dimorphos's larger ...
Engadget

NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its parent asteroid, Didymos, and the two objects' orbit around the sun, according ...
Science News

NASA’s DART spacecraft changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun

A spacecraft slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10 micrometers per second — the first time human activity has altered the orbit of a celestial object, researchers ...
Deadline.com

TriStar Lands Forthcoming Ben Mezrich Novel ‘The Last Orbit’; Matt Shakman To Direct Feature Take With Beau Flynn Producing

EXCLUSIVE: TriStar Pictures has preemptively acquired The Last Orbit, a forthcoming book from New York Times bestselling author Ben Mezrich, inking a deal for Matt Shakman (The Fantastic Four: First ...
New Scientist

NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time

Humanity has shifted an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time. This was achieved by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, but the effect has only now been ...