How NASA plans to keep Artemis astronauts alive if disaster strikes
NASA’s powerful Launch Abort System, designed to outrun an exploding rocket, is the result of years of work from scientists and engineers across the country, including in Southern California’s Mojave Desert.
Read MoreWhy won’t NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts land on the moon when they get there?
Artemis 2 will launch four astronauts around the moon no sooner than April 1. Why won’t this quartet land on the lunar surface?
Read MoreNorthern lights could be visible in 16 states tonight March 31 as a speedy CME barrels toward Earth
Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Wyoming tonight as Earth braces for impact from a speedy coronal mass ejection.
Read MoreNASA’s Artemis 2 pilot Victor Glover listens to ‘Whitey on the Moon’ every Monday. This is why.
“It ain’t about racism. It’s about the human condition.”
Read MoreRecord-breaking ‘space laser’ erupts from merging galaxies 8 billion light-years away
Astronomers have spotted the most distant and brightest “space laser” ever seen, and it’s blasting from a galaxy collision that occurred when the universe was half its current age.
Read More25 years ago, ‘Invader Zim’ arrived, but it was too far ahead of its time
“You dare agree with me? Prepare to meet your horrible doom!”
Read MoreHuge solar flare no threat to Artemis 2 astronaut launch to the moon, NASA says
A massive X1.4 solar flare won’t endanger NASA’s four Artemis 2 astronauts on their way to the moon.
Read MorePowell Center Seminar: Beyond waves and shifting sand: considering ecosystem processes in forecasts of coastal landscape change
Join us for a Powell Center seminar on Monday, April 13 from 1-2 pm MT / 3-4 pm ET.
Read MoreInterstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be nearly 12 billion years old — so ancient its star system may no longer exist
Our solar system’s famous “invader” might be as old as the Milky Way itself.
Read MoreUSGS Eastern Ecological Science Center at the 2026 Northeast Fish & Wildlife Conference
USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center (EESC) researchers are presenting findings of scientific studies at the 81st Annual Northeast Fish & Wildlife Conference in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia from April 7-10, 2026.
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