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The Artemis 2 crew, standing in from of their Artemis spacecraft, discusses their planned around-the-moon flight with reporters at the Kennedy Space Center. Left to right: commander Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now.

A quartet of astronauts will have to wait until next year before their voyage around the Moon. In a robust update on Tuesday afternoon, NASA leadership announced that the next two missions in the Artemis program, and the first featuring astronauts, will each shift back by nearly a year.

A stuck valve may be to blame for the problems plaguing Astrobotic's private Peregrine moon lander, according to the company.

"The Mandalorian" creator Jon Favreau will direct "The Mandalorian & Grogu" movie for release in theaters sometime in 2025.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted signs of a ghostly aurora over a 'failed star,' in the form of infrared emissions from methane in the brown dwarf's atmosphere.

NASA announced today (Jan. 9) that its flagship Artemis 2 moon mission will be delayed until September 2025 due to technical challenges and safety concerns.

A propellant leak will keep Astrobotic's Peregrine lander from touching down on the moon, but the mission team is working to extend the probe's life as long as possible.

The mysterious wispy green light captured by the James Webb Space Telescope last year near the heart of Cassiopeia A turns out to be a result of a blast wave slamming into surrounding material.

NASA will host a teleconference at 1:30 p.m. EST today (Jan. 9) to give an update on its moon exploration plans under the agency's Artemis program.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station could soon add new taste to their food if a 'certain space agency' accepts the proposal of a condiments company.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch early Wednesday morning (Jan. 10), sending 22 Starlink satellites to orbit.

The clock is ticking for Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander as the spacecraft continues to leak propellant into space. The company is now trying to salvage what it can from the mission.

Launched in September 2023, the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) — led by JAXA, in collaboration with NASA with additional contributions from ESA — has produced its first test images.

Astrobotic's Peregrine Lander has set the stage for a new era of commercial missions to the moon in the coming years.

Turns out, Betelgeuse isn't the only giant star to undergo a "Great Dimming."

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The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) spacecraft Einstein Probe lifted off on a Chang Zheng (Long March) 2C rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in China at 15:03 CST / 07:03 GMT / 08:03 CET on 9 January 2024. With the successful launch, Einstein Probe began its mission to survey the sky and hunt for bursts of X-ray light from mysterious objects such as neutron stars and black holes.