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The menu for NASA’s moon mission has 189 unique items on it and mirrors that of the International Space Station

Artemis II’s AVATAR experiment will see organs-on-a-chip travel to the moon and back, revealing how such a journey affects the body’s cells

Science writer Hanne Strager explores how the trailblazing Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann overcame self-doubt to discover that Earth has a solid inner core, overturning the long-held belief that it was liquid

Amid a journey of celestial spectacles, the Artemis II astronauts may spot a comet—if it survives a dash past the sun

The second day of the Artemis II moon mission saw the crew perform a series of maneuvers that put the Orion capsule on course for the lunar far side

A single subatomic particle from deep space had the same energy as a baseball pitch, and scientists still don’t know how it got here

These incredible corals form what may be one of the world’s largest reef systems—and researchers have a plan to restore it

Artemis II blasts off on a high‑stakes lunar flyby, marking NASA’s first crewed mission to the moon in decades

The Orion spacecraft just completed its last planned major fuel burn, setting its course for the rest of its 10-day journey around the moon and back

It was a tough decision to leave Timmy the humpback whale to die on a small island in the Baltic Sea

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Environmental Protection Agency announced a joint effort to track microplastics in drinking water—but experts say doing so will be difficult

Scientists have learned how male octopuses’ specialized sperm-depositing arm knows where to go