NASA’s Artemis program faces many challenges to overcome to achieve its goal of landing humans on the Moon in 2024. There are the myriad technical problems that have already occurred, and will likely continue to crop up in the coming years as NASA completes development of the Space Launch Sy...
During Artemis III, Starship is expected to transport astronauts from NASA'sOrion spacecrafttothe lunar south poleand back. It would be the first human moon-landing since 1972. The space agency also has promised the mission will see a woman and person of color walk on the moon for the firs...
On July 11, 2022, NASA released the first image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope allowing us to see “thedeepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universeto date,” according to NASA. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, the image is of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, depict...
We can thank the gravitational tug-of-war between Earth and the sun for the changes wrought on the moon's orbital motion. Earth, of course, has greater influence on the moon because it is much closer to it than the sun. However, the sun still manages to perturb the lunar orbit in man...
Starship is the centerpiece of Musk's eventual plans to head to Mars. While the spacecraft remains in early testing, it is NASA's choice of lander to send Artemis astronauts to the moon no earlier than 2025. Musk's hopes of flying to Mars are undimmed. In 2011, he revealed that he ...