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 From :- BBC News Edited by :- Amal Udawatta        NASA The Artemis II mission crew talked to media, their families and even President Donald Trump from space The Artemis II crew have safely returned home after re-entering Earth's atmosphere at 25,000mph (40,000km/h), splashing down off the coast of California. They have travelled deeper into space than any humans before them - just over 4,000 miles more than the record of 248,655 set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Astronauts are highly trained to cope with the physical and mental strain of space. Although it might seem like it would be a difficult experience to endure, astronauts talk about being in space as the highlight of their lives and say they would return in an instant. In a press conference before landing, Christina Koch said the inconveniences, such as freeze-dried food or a toilet without much privacy, were worth it. Nasa does not release details about the crew members' health or private lives, but here's wha...

 From NASA News  Edited by :- Amal UDawatta NASA’s Artemis II mission, launched on April 1, 2026, is a 10-day crewed test flight orbiting the Moon to prepare for future lunar surface missions. The mission carries four astronauts—Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen—aboard the Orion spacecraft, marking the first human return to the Moon's vicinity in over 50 years. Mission Details and Objectives: Crew: Commander Reid Wiseman (NASA), Pilot Victor Glover (NASA), Mission Specialist Christina Koch (NASA), and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen (CSA). Flight Path: The mission involves a "flyby" around the Moon, reaching roughly 4,600 miles beyond it before returning to Earth. Key Milestones: Following a successful launch on April 1, 2026, the crew is conducting a "free-return" trajectory, designed to test life support, navigation, and manual piloting systems. Significance: Artemis II is the first crewed flight of the Space Launch Sy...

 From  :-  NASA Edited by :-  Amal Udawatta The Progress 92 cargo spacecraft, carrying nearly 3,000 pounds of food, fuel, and supplies for the Expedition 73 crew, approaches the International Space Station in July 2025 before docking to the Poisk module. Credit: NASA NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 94 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 7:59 a.m. EDT (4:59 p.m. Baikonur time) Sunday, March 22, on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Watch NASA’s live coverage beginning at 7:30 a.m. on  NASA+ ,  Amazon Prime , and the agency’s  YouTube  channel. Learn how to  watch NASA content  through a variety of online platforms, including social media. After a two-day trip to the space station, the spacecraft will dock auton...

     From :- W.M. KECK Observatory       By :-  :   Meagan O’Shea      Editted by :- Amal Udawatta Artist interpretation depicts a hypothesized event known as a superkilonova. Initially, a massive star explodes in a supernova, which generates elements like carbon and iron (left). In the aftermath, two neutron stars are born, at least one of which is believed to be less massive than our Sun (middle). The neutron stars spiral together, sending gravitational waves rippling through the cosmos, before merging in a dramatic kilonova (right). Kilonovae seed the universe with the heaviest elements, such as gold at platinum, which glow in red light as depicted in the animation. Credit: Caltech/K. Miller and R. Hurt (IPAC)  A team of astronomers using a variety of telescopes, including the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island, have discovered a possible “Superkilonova” that exploded not once but twice, evidence that this o...

  From:- Space.com     By  Julian Dossett   Edited by: Amal Udawatta A photo from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii.   (Image credit: T. Currie/Subaru Telescope, UTSA) While our ability to view distant worlds with advanced telescopes has come a long way in a short time, we can still only photograph a tiny fraction of the planets throughout our cosmos with the technology we have today. However, astronomers in Hawaii just spotted a pair of exciting discoveries — a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf — using Japan’s  Subaru Telescope , which sits atop Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. These new celestial discoveries represent the first findings from OASIS (Observing Accelerators with SCExAO Imaging Survey), a program that relies on the Subaru Telescope, as well as data from other sources. The  exoplanet  that the astronomers found is called HIP 54515 b. It's 271 light-years away from Earth and orbits a star in the Leo cons...