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Researchers at Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University used a ground-based GPS receiver network to analyze the April Artemis II launch, finding it carved two roughly 5,000 km-wide holes in Earth's ionosphere. The disturbance, measured via delays in GPS satellite signals, was reportedly about ten times stronger than disruptions recorded during SpaceX Starship test flights.
Blue Origin unveiled a new kick stage and rocket engine design for New Glenn while confirming that the rocket's return-to-flight mission has slipped from December to January, a delay described as minor and widely expected. The company is still rebuilding its Cape Canaveral launch pad, which was destroyed in an explosion roughly six months ago.
NASA says Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will reach a distance of one light-day from Earth—about 16 billion miles—at 5:16:07 a.m. EST on Nov. 18, 2026. Its twin, Voyager 2, which took a different trajectory past Uranus and Neptune, is expected to reach the same milestone in November 2035.
A NASA scientist involved with the Artemis program described how astronauts on Artemis III and later missions will be trained to make scientific observations on the Moon, not just take photographs. The approach includes giving crew members science prompts during training exercises, asking them to interpret scenes, infer causes, and decide what actions to take next, mirroring how they'll operate on the lunar surface.
NASA has published more than 800GB of science data from the Artemis II mission on its 'Artemis II: Sights & Sounds of Science' website. The release includes over 11,000 photos and videos, more than 8.5 hours of audio recordings, and crew-annotated images, including one marking observed impact flashes on the Moon's dark side.
NASA has released a new dataset from the Artemis II mission, including photographs, drawings, annotations and verbal observations recorded by the four astronauts as they orbited the Moon. Notably, the crew reported seeing five extremely faint flashes of light while on the Moon's far side, later confirmed by scientists as impacts from small rocky fragments striking the lunar surface. The crew also documented varied surface colors, from grays and browns to green and blue hues.
NASA has published nearly a terabyte of scientific data from the Artemis II mission, including 11,000 full-resolution images and videos, 8.5 hours of recorded astronaut observations, handwritten notes, transcripts, and Orion capsule camera footage. The agency also issued three accompanying reports detailing lunar science findings and operations from the mission, and made the archive accessible through its Planetary Data System.
NASA has made publicly available a comprehensive collection of lunar images and data gathered during the Artemis II crewed flight. The information was collected by the four astronauts aboard the spacecraft and is expected to aid future lunar surface missions.
Astronauts on NASA's Artemis II mission used Nikon DSLR and mirrorless cameras, GoPro Hero4s for interior and exterior video, and iPhone 17 Pro Max phones to document the flight around the moon. Nikon senior manager Michael Corrado described the certification process required for equipment to fly in space and explained why much of the gear astronauts use is years old.
Microsoft Outlook users encountering the 'Your message can't be displayed right now' error can resolve it by clearing their cache, whether they use the web version or the desktop client. The fix forces Outlook to rebuild fresh copies of emails without deleting any messages, calendar events, or contacts.
NASA and IBM launched the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, a free AI system on Hugging Face designed to help scientists study the Moon. Trained on lunar imagery and environmental data, the model can spot likely ice deposits and identify craters more accurately than existing tools like Microsoft's SwinV2-B. It was recently put to a real test when it correctly flagged the impact site of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that crashed into the Moon in August, even though the new crater overlapped an existing one.
NASA has created an emeritus status for Reid Wiseman and Victor Glover, the commander and pilot of Artemis II, five months after their lunar mission splashdown. The designation lets them leave active astronaut duty and pursue outside careers—Glover is taking a leadership role at Cal Poly—while remaining available unpaid to train and advise NASA staff on Orion spacecraft systems.