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Nuclear power fuels a new space race

  • by ENN News Desk

Interplanetary travel powered by nuclear systems is moving from science fiction to near-term reality. NASA plans to launch the Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission by December 2028, billed as the first nuclear-powered...

Cosmic Uniformity Challenged by New DESI Galaxy Maps

  • by ENN News Desk

Modern cosmology rests on a simple idea: look large enough, and matter should smooth out, with no preferred direction across the cosmos. This assumption, known as the cosmological principle, underlies the standard...

How nations compare in the new space race

  • by ENN News Desk

When NASA recently revealed the crew for the Artemis III mission at Johnson Space Center, the announcement captured public attention. The all-male team—Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and U.S. astronauts Andre Douglas...

Pentagon Releases New UFO Files, Urges Public to Decide

  • by ENN News Desk

Washington — The Pentagon has started publishing a new batch of files on unidentified flying objects, saying members of the public can draw their own conclusions about “unidentified anomalous phenomena.”

China Expands Tiangong as ISS Retirement Nears

  • by ENN News Desk

Beijing, May 1, 2026 — China has confirmed plans to enlarge its Tiangong low-Earth-orbit space station, a move that could more than double the outpost’s size as the rival International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled...

China Launches Pakistan's PRSC-EO3 Satellite

  • by ENN News Desk

China launched a Pakistani Earth-observation satellite from its Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi late Saturday, state media reported. The satellite, PRSC-EO3, lifted off at 8:15 pm Beijing time on a Long...

Artemis II Launches Crew on Lunar Flyby Test

  • by ENN News Desk

Four astronauts lifted off from Florida on Wednesday aboard NASA’s Artemis II, a high-stakes crewed flight around the moon that advances the United States’ push to return humans to the lunar surface this decade. The...

Rise: Artemis II's Plush Zero-G Mascot

  • by ENN News Desk

More than 50 years after Apollo, NASA is sending humans back toward the Moon. Artemis II will carry four astronauts on a lunar flyby — they won’t land, but they will travel farther from Earth than any humans have before.