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The Deben river during low-tide at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk.

7th century Anglo-Saxon ship will sail England's rivers once again

Illustration of Psyche spacecraft with five-panel array.

NASA's Psyche mission to an unexplored metal world comes to a halt

With wildflowers surrounding the view, NASA's Artemis I Moon rocket -- carried atop the crawler-transporter 2 -- arrives at Launch Pad 39B at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 6, 2022. The rocket rolled out of the Vehicle Assembly Building in the early morning hours to travel the 4.2 miles to the launch pad for NASA's next wet dress rehearsal attempt ahead of the Artemis I launch. The first in an increasingly complex series of missions, Artemis I will test the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft as an integrated system prior to crewed flights to the Moon. Through Artemis, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the lunar surface, paving the way for a long-term lunar presence and using the Moon as a steppingstone before venturing to Mars.

Artemis I rocket prepares for late August launch to the moon

APSTONE revealed in lunar Sunrise: CAPSTONE will fly in cislunar space -- the orbital space near and around the Moon. The mission will demonstrate an innovative spacecraft-to-spacecraft navigation solution at the Moon from a near rectilinear halo orbit slated for Artemis' Gateway.
Credits: Illustration by NASA/Daniel Rutter

A tiny spacecraft the size of a microwave could pave the way for a station between Earth and the moon

Mid adult Caucasian mother is sitting outdoors with her young son. Boy is sitting in mother's lap while they look up into the night sky. They are star gazing and studying constellations. Little boy is pointing to moon or stars in clear night sky.

5 planets take center stage as they align in the night sky

Filaments of Ca. Thiomargarita magnifica. A team of researchers at the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC), and the Université des Antilles], have characterized a bacterium composed of a single cell that is 5,000 times larger than other bacteria. The bacteria, Ca. Thiomargarita magnifica, discovered in the French Caribbean mangroves is a member of the genus Thiomargarita. Image by Olivier Gros

World's largest bacterium discovered is the size of a human eyelash

Site 'overlooked for over 90 years,' was home to some of Britain's earliest humans, study finds