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Countdown to a lunar comeback: NASA readies astronauts for Moon journey

Christina Koch is expected to become the first woman to fly around the moon.

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General view of the moon on March 30, 2026
The sun is captured over Earth's horizon by a crew member aboard the International Space Station in this May 21, 2013 photo courtesy of NASA.

NASA set for first crewed moon return in over half a century

The mission is the first crewed test flight in NASA's Artemis program, the flagship US effort to begin regular flights to the moon, at an estimated cost of at least $93 billion since 2012.

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Spacecraft transfer with rocket to the Moon to the launch pad.

NASA charts course to a permanent lunar outpost and a nuclear‑propelled Mars vehicle

The updated exploration plan details surface habitat concepts, cargo and power infrastructure, and a nuclear thermal propulsion pathfinder for crewed deep-space transit.

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The countdown clock for the launch of NASA's Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is seen near the massive Vehicle Assembly building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 20, 2026.

NASA shakes up moon program with Artemis test mission before astronaut lunar landing

Planned for 2027, the new mission comes as the US aims to establish regular lunar missions, a long-awaited follow-up to its first moon missions in the Apollo program, which ended in 1972.

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Asteroid the size of 3 T. rex dinosaurs to pass Earth Sunday - NASA

Asteroid 2025 PM is around the size of three Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaurs. The asteroid won't hit the Earth, according to NASA calculations, and even if it did... life finds a way.

AUGUST 12, 2025ByAARON REICH
An illustrative image of an asteroid near the Earth.

Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell dies at age 97, NASA says

Jim Lovell, the NASA astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 mission around the moon and back, has died.

AUGUST 8, 2025ByREUTERS, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jim Lovell

Beijing tests lunar lander tasked with putting first Chinese on the moon

The lunar lander will be used to transport astronauts between the lunar orbit and the moon's surface, as well as serving as a living space, power source, and data center.

AUGUST 7, 2025ByREUTERS
A large screen shows news footage of a Chinese national flag carried by Chang'e-6 probe's lander on the far side of the moon, in Beijing, China June 4, 2024

SpaceX launches joint astronaut crew to ISS in NASA's Crew-11 mission

While normal crew rotation missions last roughly six months, the Crew-11 crew may be the first to settle into a new routine time of eight months.

AUGUST 1, 2025ByREUTERS
A SpaceX Falcon Nine rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A carrying NASA’s Crew-11 mission to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, August 1, 2025.

Harvard astrophysicist warns interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be alien technology on sunbound path

Avi Loeb: 'the orbit of 3I/ATLAS coincides with the plane of the Earth by only 5 degrees - the probability of such a coincidence occurring randomly is only 0.2%'.

JULY 31, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
3I/ATLAS. Image: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K. Meech (IfA/U. Hawaii).

Israeli hospital to join NASA, SpaceX mission to study microgravity’s effects on diseases

For this experiment, Sheba will partner with the US firm SpaceTango to grow several bacterial species aboard the ISS using a specially designed Earth-controlled system.

JULY 30, 2025ByAARON REICH
Astronauts are seen inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying two veteran NASA astronauts who have been stuck on the International Space Station for nine months after the capsule undocked from the ISS to begin a journey to return to Earth March 18, 2025.

NASA repairs Juno space probe camera from 600 million kilometers away

Jupiter and Earth were near their closest all year, but it still took over half an hour for a signal to go from Earth to the probe or vice-versa.

JULY 22, 2025ByAMI GRABER
The north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io was captured by the JunoCam imager aboard NASA’s Juno during the spacecraft’s 57th close pass of the gas giant on Dec. 30, 2023.

Asteroid the size of 145 Elmos to fly past Earth on Tuesday, July 15 - NASA

Asteroid 2025 MA90 is set to fly past the Earth on Tuesday, July 15. With an estimated diameter of 88.8 meters, that comes out to around 145 Elmos, thanks to measurements taken by Drew Brees.

JULY 14, 2025ByAARON REICH
An illustrative image of an asteroid near the Earth.

Two asteroids the size of 32 George Washingtons to pass Earth on Fourth of July - NASA

Americans will use anything but the metric system. So let's put that to its most logical conclusion and measure asteroids with the first US president: George Washington. 

JULY 3, 2025ByAARON REICH
An asteroid is seen flying near the Earth, specifically near the Middle East, in this artistic illustration.

Netflix to stream live NASA launches and missions

NASA hopes the partnership will help bring excitement to space exploration through live streams of launches and astronaut activities.

JULY 1, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Smoke and steam billow across Launch Complex 39B as the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-121.