NASA ends mission at the space station
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NASA's new CMEx mission will measure the Sun's chromosphere magnetism, the origin of solar storms, hoping to improve solar storm warnings.
Back in 2024, NASA announced that the Artemis 2 mission was going to be pushed back to April 2026. Now, the agency says it could launch as early as February, with the first flight opportunity being on February 6.
The NASA rocket that will fly astronauts around the moon for the first time since 1972 could be rolled out to its launchpad at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida within days. The US space agency said the 98m mega-rocket will be slowly moved from its assembly hangar to launch pad 39B on 17 January - weather and technical issues permitting.
A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, near Pasadena, California, in October. On Mars, in the belly of a rover named Perseverance,