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NASA Artemis II’s Christina Koch Reveals 3 Career Rules She Swears By

NASA working on ‘Big Bang’ upgrade to keep the Voyagers alive for longer

Mamdani’s folly: capitalists have already solved the grocery problem

AI Foretells a Future of Abundant, Happy Work

Petroleum Rules the World: We Control Most of It

The AI Doomers Who Are Playing With Fire

Blue Origin’s rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure

Trump says US Navy forcibly seized Iranian-flagged cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz

Trump signs order to speed review of psychedelics, including the controversial drug ibogaine

This Innovative UK Project is Turning Festival Urine into Massive Native Forests

This Teen Scientist Turned a $0.50 Bar of Soap Into a Cancer-Fighting Breakthrough and Became ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’

Archaeologists Dig Underneath a Medieval Castle to Find a Lost Nuclear Bunker

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

New Hope Against Pancreatic Cancer

Grocery Socialism in New York City

Yale Takes Itself to Reform School

Who Opposes Artemis?

Older People Who Remember The First Moon Landings Are Reacting To Artemis II, And It's A Whole Mixed Bag Of Emotions

AI and robotics will aid, not end, human space exploration

While the world still basks in the triumph of the Artemis II mission and looks forward to further triumphs to come, including the eventual next moon landing, a lunar base, and expeditions to Mars, a few people are not as impressed as everyone else.

Who owns the moon — and who should

The youngest man to walk on the moon reflects on U.S. space exploration

This life-hunting rover may be SpaceX's 1st-ever Mars launch

A 10-Year-Old Girl Wrote to NASA Asking Them to ‘Restore Pluto to a Planet,’ and NASA’s chief Replied with Four Words No One Expected

Non-religious NASA astronaut 'broke down in tears' seeing cross after Artemis II mission

Lefty love boat: Greta Thunberg’s freedom flotilla rocked by sexual misconduct allegations

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Let’s Make Space Nuclear Again

Gabriella's War #CommissionEarned

Earth

British Empire

The Novel

Artemis 2's heat shield seems to have aced its trial by fire

A journey to the dark side of the Moon

NASA Plans to Start a Fire on the Moon in First-of-Its-Kind Experiment

“Project Hail Mary’s” Success: A Story You Can Believe In

Artemis II Fails to Find Moon Cities

To Beat China, Embrace Open-Source AI

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Water, Water Everywhere—Except in California’s Reservoirs

Trial Lawyers Lose at the Supreme Court

Mark Kelly Makes a Bad Education Choice

How Trump put America back in space, and what comes next

Artemis II pilot talks about what it was really like to fly and land in Orion

Texas emerges as the top destination for companies leaving blue states

Artemis II: Back to the Future

AI May Well Be the Answer to the Developed World's Productivity Question .

In Space, No One Can Whine About Inequality

Are You Waking Up at 3am Every Night? Here's Why

Why is Pakistan Sending an Astronaut to China's Space Station?

SpaceX fires up next-gen 'Version 3' Starship ahead of landmark May test flight

After a saga of broken promises, a European rover finally has a ride to Mars

Rocket Lab Adds Hall-Effect Thruster To Commercial Offerings

Israeli startup unveils quest for electromagnetic launcher to shoot cargo into space

Penny-Pinching Precision: How Cheap Drones Are Breaking Expensive Armies

Alien Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Blasting 70 Swimming Pools of Water into Space Every Day and Astronomers Are Stunned

God, Creation and ‘The Story of Everything’

Justice Thomas: Progressives vs. the Declaration

A Brother on the Moon #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine #CommissionEarned

The further adventures of Anne Frank: An alternate history of a life uninterrupted #CommissionEarned

Trump Mixes a Cuba Libre

Virginia Is for Higher Taxes—and Gerrymanders

Democrats Try to Block Arms Sales to Israel

As they got close to the Moon, Artemis II astronauts were eager to land

The race to Shackleton Crater is on—will Jeff Bezos or China get there first?

The race to Shackleton Crater is on—will Jeff Bezos or China get there first?

Last man on moon, Apollo 17’s Jack Schmitt, reveals secret hidden in lunar dust that could spur space-travel boon

Vulcan woes will “absolutely” be a factor in Pentagon’s next rocket competition

NASA fast-tracks nuclear-powered spaceship, aims for interplanetary travel in 2028

Even Blue States Are Abandoning “Green Energy”

Trump tax cuts deliver bigger refunds and a big boost for working families

The Bezos vs. Musk Space Race Is Heating Up

A tale of two Martian cities

"Bathtub Ring" is New Evidence for an Ancient Ocean on Mars

Engineers Are Replacing Steel Rebar with Wavy 3D-Printed Plastic Plates to Stop Buildings from Rusting

Scientists Generate Solar Power After Dark by Turning Balsa Wood into a Heat-Absorbing Sponge

Generation X Goes to the Moon

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

A Threat Isn’t a War Crime

America’s Success Against Iran May Prove a Distraction

Iran’s Regime Wants a Lebanon Cease-Fire

Watch: NASA astronaut’s dog ‘over the moon’ for her return from lunar mission

Is America on the Verge of a Nuclear Renaissance?

Moon Belongs to US

Nolte: Pope Leo’s Anti-Trump Crusade Squanders His Moral Authority

Democrats Turned On Eric Swalwell Because He Was In The Way, Not Because They Have Morals

Iran: A Longer View

What It’s Like to Live With an Experimental Brain Implant

Inertia moves to commercialize one of the world’s most elaborate science experiments

Archaeologists Found 43,000 Ancient Egyptian ‘Sticky Notes’ That Reveal What Life Was Actually Like for Everyday People

Tough Day for the Mullahs

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

America Benefits From Unstable Energy Markets

The Wireless Space Wars Get Interesting

Trump’s Blockade Is a Crisis for Iran

Axiom Space plans 2027 flight test of spacesuit

Moya Brennan, beloved first lady of Celtic music, dies aged 73

The moon's oldest and darkest craters could be hiding the most water ice. That's good news for future astronauts

The Artemis II mission has ended. Where does NASA go from here?

Senate Republican calls proposed NASA budget cuts a ‘mistake’

Trump Jiu-Jitsu Puts America in Control of Persian Gulf Oil Flow

The lesson behind Argentina’s miracle recovery — after rolling back socialism

6 mind-blowing space missions now set to launch after Artemis II

Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss

Kamala Can Still Pull a Nixon

What Would Bill Buckley Do?

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond: Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

Trump Gave the GOP a New, Populist Soul

AI Is Bound to Subvert Communism

Democracy Lives in Europe, After All

Navy to use underwater drones to help clear Iranian mines from Strait of Hormuz

SpaceX could be the biggest IPO in history. Will investors see a return?

The Unexpected World of the Odyssey

Artemis II crew back on Earth. Crew speaks out at welcome home event

This New Laser Can Glue Paper Without Any Adhesives and It’s a Bigger Deal Than You’d Think

Revolutionary Therapy Cured Three “Incurable” Autoimmune Diseases in a Patient

Why AI Is Like a Gold Mine

Studies Suggest Red Meat May Help Prevent Alzheimer’s

‘By George, I Was Up There’

Trump Is Making the Best of ObamaCare

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? #CommissionEarned

The Iran War Is a Boon for the Petrodollar

Hungarians Oust Viktor Orbán

Trump Blockades the Blockaders in Iran

Trump: We Will Seize Ships That Paid the Mullahgeld

How the flight of Artemis II brought us together

The crew of the Artemis II have returned to Earth, covered in glory, having splashed down in the Pacific Ocean near San Diego. They have returned to a planet riven by war and political division. But their mission seems to have brought humans on Earth together in support and awe of the first voyage to the moon in many decades.

Vance: No Deal – And That’s Bad News For Iran; Update: Vance Exits ASAP

Artemis II reminds us why it’s still worth shooting for the moon

Why Artemis II Changes The New Moon Race – Analysis

Circling the moon, a Black astronaut inspires millions

Boeing’s moon rocket faces uncertain future under Trump’s NASA

SpaceX Launches More Rockets Than Anyone Else in the World. Here Is What That Means for Its IPO

Artemis II Astronauts Back in Houston, Reunite with Families

Gabriella's War

Growing List of Dead and Missing NASA Scientists Triggers New Alarm

Major Strategic Shift in Global Energy Market Favors United States

Artemis II Is Very Good News

In pictures: Artemis II’s spectacular Moon mission, from launch to dramatic splashdown

Artemis 2 Splashdown: NASA hails Orion astronauts' return from moon

Even astronauts get constipated in space

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Artemis II splashes down in Pacific Ocean after 10-day mission

Democrats vs. Nuns, Again

Show Us the Gulf Oil Tankers