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The crew of NASA’s Artemis II mission, now 100,000 miles from Earth, has released the first breathtaking images of our planet from inside the Orion spacecraft. These photos, taken during the 10-day lunar flyby mission, offer a historic glimpse of Earth from deep space ahead of humanity’s return to t

NASA’s FY 2027 budget proposal slashes the agency by 23% and NASA Science by 47%, threatening Artemis II, the Roman Space Telescope, and asteroid defense. The Planetary Society condemns the cuts as out of step with bipartisan congressional and public support for space exploration.

An international team of astronomers has identified SDSS J0715-7334, the most metal-poor star ever observed, formed just billions of years after the Big Bang. Using SDSS-V data and Magellan telescopes, the discovery reveals new clues about the universe's first stellar generations.