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NASA rolls Artemis 2 rocket to the pad ahead of historic moon launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The rocket that will launch the next humans to the moon is rolling to the pad for its historic mission, which could lift off just a few weeks from now.

NASA is targeting Feb. 2 for the wet dress rehearsal. Feb. 6 is the earliest possible launch day for Artemis 2, which will fly NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion spacecraft on a roughly 10-day mission around the moon.

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NASA rolls Artemis 2 rocket to the pad ahead of historic moon launch

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The rocket that will launch the next humans to the moon is rolling to the pad for its historic mission, which could lift off just a few weeks from now.

NASA is targeting Feb. 2 for the wet dress rehearsal. Feb. 6 is the earliest possible launch day for Artemis 2, which will fly NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen aboard the Orion spacecraft on a roughly 10-day mission around the moon.

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Splashdown! NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 back on Earth after 1st-ever ISS medical evacuation
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SpaceX launches NASA's Pandora exoplanet mission, 3 dozen other satellites (video)

Pandora will study the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets during its yearlong mission.

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Perseverance recently snapped this image of a "megaripple" on Mars.

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NASA may be 1 month away from historic Artemis 2 astronaut launch around the moon

Artemis 2, the first crewed mission of NASA's Artemis program, could launch as soon as Feb. 6. The mission will fly NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen on the first trip to lunar space in more than half a century, and will pave the way for what NASA intends to be an eventual permanent human presence on the moon.

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NASA's Curiosity rover sends stunning new panorama from high on Mars' Mount Sharp

The image was captured in November 2025, showing how lighting changes throughout the day on Mars.

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SpaceX shatters its rocket launch record yet again — 165 orbital flights in 2025

SpaceX launched nearly twice as many orbital missions as China did this year, and the company's 2025 output represented about 85% of the United States' total tally.

Elon Musk's company has now set a new mark six years in a row, and the numbers are getting pretty silly. The record has risen from 25 orbital liftoffs in 2020 to 31 (2021) to 61 (2022) to 96 (2023) to 134 (2024) and, now, to a whopping 165. And that's not including five non-orbital Starship test flights by SpaceX.

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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover could break the record for miles driven on another planet

Nearly five years into its mission on the Red Planet, the car-sized rover still has enough remaining capability to drive more than twice the distance it has already logged, mission scientists said Wednesday (Dec. 17) at the American Geophysical Union meeting in Louisiana.

That estimate puts the six-wheeled robot on track to surpass the current distance record of 28.06 miles (45.16 kilometers), set by NASA's Opportunity rover after more than 14 years of exploration on Mars before a monster dust storm ended its mission in 2018.

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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too

MAVEN (short for "Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution") has been silent since Dec. 4, despite repeated efforts to hail the spacecraft, NASA announced in an update on Monday (Dec. 15). And a fragment of tracking data recovered on Dec. 6 delivered a bit of additional bad news.

"Analysis of that signal suggests that the MAVEN spacecraft was rotating in an unexpected manner when it emerged from behind Mars," NASA officials wrote in the update. "Further, the frequency of the tracking signal suggests MAVEN's orbit trajectory may have changed."

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Steven Spielberg finally reveals 1st trailer for new UFO film 'Disclosure Day' (2 min)
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Scientists map of old Mars river basins for the 1st time. These could be great places to search for ancient life

A complex valley network near Idaeus Fossae on Mars, captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. New mapping shows such networks were once part of vast, connected river basins that carried nearly half the sediment moved by Martian rivers, and may be among the most promising places to search for evidence of ancient life.

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may also be among the most promising places to search for signs of past life.

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NASA's loses contact with MAVEN Mars orbiter on the far side of the Red Planet

Something happened to the probe on the far side of the Red Planet.

MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is one of only three NASA missions currently in operation around Mars, and one of five spacecraft serving as a communications relay for the space agency's rover missions on the Martian surface.

MAVEN launched on a ULA Atlas V rocket in Nov. 2013

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2025 Geminid Meteor Shower: online observation - 13 Dec. 2025
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Watch the Geminid meteor shower peak tonight from the comfort of home with this free livestream

The Geminid meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through the debris from asteroid (3200) Phaethon

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Mars orbiter sees 'butterfly' crater spread its wings on the Red Planet
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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS caught on camera in new images from Hubble Space Telescope and JUICE Jupiter probe

JUICE and the Hubble Space Telescope turned their gazes towards the interstellar visitor in November.

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Chinese astronauts inspect damaged Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during 8-hour spacewalk (video)

The Shenzhou 20 vehicle was deemed unfit to carry astronauts back to Earth after suffering a space junk strike.

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Russian Soyuz capsule lands on Earth to return crew of 3 home after months on International Space Station (video)

Jonny Kim of NASA and Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky of Roscosmos touched down in Kazakhstan on Tuesday (Dec. 9).

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Hear dust devils on Mars crackle with electricity in new NASA Perseverance rover video

For the first time, we can see and hear lightning-like discharges in Mars' thin atmosphere.

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Comet 3I/ATLAS shows activity in Juice navigation camera teaser
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