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The Artemis II mission that will take a crew of astronauts around the moon and back to Earth is expected to launch no earlier than February 6, 2026.

NASA's giant new moon rocket is on its way to the launch pad. The 322-foot Space Launch System rocket began its 1 mph creep from Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building on Saturday morning.

Jupiter's fourth-largest moon is a main character in our search for other life-friendly places in our solar system.

The buzz is building for NASA’s Artemis II mission that will send four astronauts on a 10-day voyage around the moon. The highly anticipated endeavor will be the first crewed moon-bound flight since the final Apollo mission way back in 1972.

NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Nicola Fox explains an intriguing rock that the Perseverance rover inspected named "Cheyava Falls." Credit: NASA

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured mesmerizing new images of the Helix Nebula. With the use of Webb’s NIRCAm, pillars of what look like comets with long tails line the inner region of expanding gas inside the nebula, NASA said. It almost looks similar to the zoomed-in iris of the human eye.

Viewer video captured a NASA research plane making a belly landing at Ellington Airport in Houston.

NASA Glenn Research Center and the Neil Armstrong Test Facility are continuing their mission-critical space research, with about 600 fewer employees compared to one year ago.

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