Author name: Scientific American

NASA officials and the crew are starting to prepare in earnest for Monday’s lunar flyby—while also trying to fix the toilet

The Artemis II crew will spend about six hours on Monday observing the moon. Here’s what they’ll be looking for

The White House budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing

The third day of the Artemis II mission was relatively quiet, as four astronauts trek out to fly around the moon

You can track the start of spring and the phases of the moon—or you can turn to a formula by mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss

Friday is the Artemis II mission’s third official day as it makes a ten-day journey around the moon and back

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