Artemis III in 2027 will bring astronauts onto the moon, this time not in the Sea of Tranquility, the site near the moon’s equator where Apollo 11 landed, but on the South Pole, where Douglas said ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s newest space telescope has blasted off to map the entire sky like never before. Launched Tuesday ...

Go SpaceX. Go SPHEREx, Go PUNCH. SPHEREx and PUNCH on their way to map out our universe like never before and revolutionize space weather forecasting. SPHEREx is drifting away from Falcon 9’s ...