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By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time in 50 years, a spacecraft is preparing to launch on a journey to the moon. The uncrewed Artemis I mission, including the Space Launch System Rocket and Orion spacecraft, is targeting liftoff on August 29 between 8:33 a.m. ET and 10:33 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space

By Ashley Strickland, CNN In 1968, NASA astronaut Bill Anders captured a photo while aboard Apollo 8 that changed the way we see our planet: Earthrise. The iconic photo shows a perspective of Earth as seen from near the lunar surface. It might be easy to take dreamy sunrises or glowing full moons for granted

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Would you like some meaty, savory mealworm powder seasoning with your food? It’s a question you might soon be hearing at the dinner table, or at least that’s the hope of scientists at South Korea’s Wonkwang University. Researchers In Hee Cho and Hyeyoung Park presented their development of a meaty mealworm

By Britley Ritz, CNN When it comes to launching Artemis I — the next generation of spacecraft to explore the moon and beyond — forecasting the weather is a crucial part of its success. Meteorologists can accurately forecast up to three days in advance, and even then, things can change. Launch dates that are set

By Sandee LaMotte, CNN State agricultural departments across the United States are asking you to commit murder — bug murder, that is. Your victim: the spotted lanternfly, or Lycorma delicatula, a beautiful creature with large brownish gray wings with black spots that open to reveal striking red underwings. Your mission, should you choose to accept

By Angela Dewan, CNN The dangerous levels of heat that have scorched swathes of the northern hemisphere this summer are likely to hit most of the world between three and 10 times more often by the turn of the century, as the impacts of the human-caused climate crisis accelerate, a new study has found. That

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Artemis I will carry an unconventional crew when it’s expected to lift off Wednesday on a journey around the moon. Rather than astronauts, a mannequin named Commander Moonikin Campos will helm the Orion spacecraft, with two mannequin torsos called Helga and Zohar along for the ride. The Artemis program aims to

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Many people in the northern hemisphere have spent the summer reaching for a boozy drink at the end of the day to take the edge off the scorching, dry heat. It turns out that a tipple may be just what plants need too. A peer-reviewed study published Thursday in the journal

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When NASA’s Artemis I launches next week on a journey to the moon, no animals or people will be onboard, but it will still carry biology investigations to see how living things react to the deep space environment. The Orion spacecraft will carry items like yeast, algae, fungi and seeds rather

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN When you walk out the door to start your day, you might not know that you are taking part in something that defines us as human — and something that our ancestors have been doing for 7 million years, according to new research. Researchers looked at a femur and two ulna

By Kristin Fisher, CNN For the first time in 50 years, NASA is on the precipice of launching a rocket that is designed to fly astronauts all the way to the moon. But instead of leaving just flags and footprints in a mad dash to beat the Soviet Union, NASA has a new rival and

By Ashley Strickland, CNN For the first time in 50 years, a spacecraft is preparing to launch on a journey to the moon. The uncrewed Artemis I mission, including the Space Launch System Rocket and Orion spacecraft, is targeting liftoff on August 29 between 8:33 a.m. ET and 10:33 a.m. ET from NASA’s Kennedy Space

By Heather Chen, CNN What seemed like an innocent Christmas gift of 24 English rabbits in 1859 would go on to become Australia’s “most devastating biological invasion,” according to a new study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Wild rabbits are not native to Australia and are considered an invasive species. Farmers

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mission is ready to launch. That’s the result of NASA’s Flight Readiness Review, which was conducted on Monday. The review was an in-depth assessment of the preparedness of the 322-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) stack, consisting of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, currently sitting on the launchpad at