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In-depth, fact-checked space journalism
In-depth, fact-checked space journalism

The ashen glow on a thin crescent Moon is sunlight bounced off Earth. Decades of measuring that earthshine revealed something unsettling: the planet is reflecting less light.

Thousands of dehydrated tardigrades crashed into the Moon aboard Beresheet in 2019. The impact physics says they died — and a tun with no liquid water to revive in was never alive anyway.

Six articles in the New York Sun claimed Sir John Herschel had found winged humanoids on the Moon. The physics of his real telescope disproves it in one line of arithmetic.

For the first time since Apollo, humans are orbiting the Moon — and seeing its hidden far side with their own eyes. Here's what the Artemis II crew witnessed.

Artemis II sends four extraordinary astronauts around the Moon — the first crewed lunar mission since 1972. Meet the commander, pilot, and mission specialists breaking barriers in deep space.