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NASA Prepares for Artemis II Splashdown After Historic Moon Flyby
The mission is seen as a key step toward resuming crewed lunar landings. Artemis II’s four astronauts are scheduled to land in the waters off Southern California on Friday.
Climate Change Denial Sees a Resurgence in Trump’s Washington
A conference near the White House drew dozens of people who reject the scientific consensus on climate change. The mood was triumphant.
Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew
New research is upending what we thought about the consciousness of patients, leaving families with agonizing choices.
Why Manatees Need Humans to Slow Down and Pay Attention
These gentle giants forage in shallow waters, primarily along the coast of Florida, and often have fatal encounters with boats. What can be done to help them?
Patients Are Using Chatbots to Fight Medical Bills, With Mixed Results
While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also dispense flawed advice.
Artemis II Astronauts Get a Break After Journey Around the Moon
The crew of the NASA mission had a quiet day as they flew home toward Earth.
How Psychedelics Affect the Brain
An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain.
NASA’s Artemis II Astronauts Spread ‘Moon Joy’ to the Public
While science can seem colorless and plain, NASA’s lunar crew members have brought expressiveness and emotion about their journey to mission control and the public.
See First Photos From NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Capturing a Setting Earth and Eclipse
The White House and NASA released imagery captured by the cameras of the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission.
Idaho Cut Services for People With Schizophrenia. Then the Deaths Began.
Eliminating outreach to people with severe mental illness set off such a cascade of bad outcomes that Idaho has scrambled to reverse the cuts.
Artemis II Astronauts Head Home After Historic Journey Around the Moon
The NASA lunar flyby took the four crew members farther from Earth than any humans. They witnessed a solar eclipse and received praise in a call from President Trump.
Trump Calls Artemis II Astronauts After Their Historic Journey Around the Moon
The conversation celebrated a small, but significant, step in an ambitious plan for missions to the moon and Mars that Mr. Trump had set early in his first term.
The Dark Side of the Moon Is Really the Far Side
Scientists prefer to call the backside of the moon its “far” side.
How to Follow NASA’s Artemis II Around the Far Side of the Moon
The astronauts will head into a communications blackout at 6:44 p.m. Eastern time as they become the first people to travel around the moon since 1972.
The Artemis II crew breaks a distance record.
Three Americans and one Canadian traveling on NASA’s Orion spacecraft surpassed a milestone set by the crew of Apollo 13 in 1970.
Artemis II Astronauts Name Moon Crater After Carroll, Reid Wiseman’s Late Wife
The crew shared an emotional moment with mission control and the family of Reid Wiseman, whose wife, Carroll, died in 2020, on the ground in Houston.