How well Artemis II manages its risks — untested hardware, deep-space distance, and limited escape options — will shape NASA's plans for future lunar landings and, potentially, human missions to Mars. A serious failure could revive long-standing questions about whether the dangers of deep space still justify sending people there.

What everyone agrees on is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. This issue has become especially acute with the recent loss of NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. NASA’s best communications relay remains the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has now been there for 20 years.

A NASA research plane malfunctioned and had to touch down in Texas without landing gear on Tuesday, sliding across the runway on its belly and sending plumes of flame behind it, a video posted to social media showed.

As the Artemis II crew enters quarantine, NASA is navigating a narrow path to the moon. Biting Florida winds have forced the historic liftoff to 8 February at the earliest, with 6 and 7 February now officially ruled out.

From a childhood and young adulthood in segregation, West excelled academically and eventually helped model the Earth’s shape.

This Week in Texas we discuss the political reaction here in our state to the ongoing ICE action in Minneapolis.

A new radar image from NASA and ISRO’s NISAR satellite cuts through clouds to reveal hidden landscapes, offering an early glimpse of how the mission could reshape Earth monitoring worldwide.