Mesa Redonda: Ciencia, Diseño y Ficción, 15 de febrero

The moon gets hit by space debris all the time, but some of it is so large that the impact generates light that can be seen thousands of kilometers away.

The crew of Artemis II will not descend to the moon, but their capsule will fly over the far side of its surface.

The moon is not just a barren rock orbiting the Earth. The Artemis missions could answer the great unknowns that the satellite holds.

An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

Splashdown for the Artemis II crew is scheduled for Friday evening, and NASA will livestream the historic homecoming.

The Artemis II mission crew includes the first woman, the first Black person, and the first non-American astronaut to travel to the lunar environment.

The Gulf’s water system is built with layers of backup, but it relies on continuous operation to hold.

Chinese fantasy novels reimagine the past with modern tech and ideology. A new book argues they also help reinforce authoritarian politics.

A model of the cyclic universe suggests that dark matter could be a population of black holes predating the Big Bang.

Entire space programs have been canceled after a failure in the reentry phase. In the final test for Artemis II, astronauts will travel at 32 times the speed of sound as they return from the moon.

The first images from Artemis II reveal what the moon looks like just 7,000 km from the surface—and confirm that NASA is ready to return to Earth’s satellite.