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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.
Patriots quarterback Drake Maye said in a Monday media appearance that he was skeptical the US actually landed on the Moon, citing a conspiracy-theory class he took at UNC. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman responded on social media, saying he has 'the receipts' proving the landings happened.
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.
Blue Origin has revealed a concept called the Power Tower, a 20-meter solar array designed to deploy vertically after landing on the Moon and generate more than 10 kilowatts of electricity. The company says the system targets Moon Base operations near the lunar south pole, the region NASA's Artemis program is focused on, though no flight date has been announced. An animation shows the tower's mast rising and arms unfolding to position solar panels after landing.
SpaceX's 14th Starship test flight reached orbit for the first time on Monday, deploying 26 functioning Starlink satellites and completing a controlled splashdown of its Super Heavy booster. However, engine failures—one on the booster during ascent and descent, and one on the upper stage during ascent—forced SpaceX to cut the planned 10-hour, six-orbit mission short, returning the ship to Earth after about three hours before it exploded on Pacific splashdown.
SpaceX is preparing to launch its fourteenth full-scale Starship test flight on Monday, pending regulatory approval. The plan calls for Starship to orbit Earth six times over ten hours at an altitude of 171 miles before attempting a soft landing, following hardware changes to the Super Heavy booster after only 10 of 13 engines relit during the last landing attempt in July.
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.
NASA launched Artemis 2, sending astronauts on a lunar flyby mission using the Orion spacecraft for its first crewed flight. The mission was designed to test Orion's life-support, navigation, and other systems with humans aboard after previous uncrewed testing.
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 have jointly released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI system that merges decades of US and Japanese lunar mission data into a single unified map. It is the first model of its kind to combine multiple imaging types, viewing angles, and scales of the Moon's surface into one adaptable framework, similar to earlier Earth and Sun models built by the same partnership.
NASA and IBM have jointly released the Lunar Foundation Model, an AI system trained on decades of lunar observation data, now freely available on Hugging Face. Built alongside what the two say is the first open-source dataset combining imagery from nine instruments across four moon missions, the model is designed to support NASA's Artemis program.
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.