NASA advances lunar ambitions with Artemis III timeline while SpaceX achieves historic $2 trillion valuation; Venus-moon conjunction offers stargazers a celestial treat this week.

NASA's Artemis III mission received a rosy update from agency leadership, though experts warn the timeline to return humans to the moon remains ambitious and faces significant technical hurdles ahead.

SpaceX has evolved from Elon Musk's unlikely 10-percent-success-chance venture into a $2 trillion juggernaut, fundamentally transforming commercial space transportation and reusability in the rocket industry.

A delightful astronomical event this week features a three-day-old crescent moon positioned just its own width away from the bright planet Venus in the constellation Cancer, visible during twilight hours.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman responded to criticism over the all-male Artemis III crew composition, emphasizing that women hold prominent roles throughout the space agency's operations and missions.

Europe's commercial space enterprise faced another setback as a key mission was scrubbed, continuing delays in the continent's efforts to compete in the growing commercial spaceflight market.

Scientists using geochronological methods revealed that the Giant's Causeway's basalt columns formed during volcanic activity over 5.5 million years ago—approximately 8 million years more recently than previously believed.

A San Francisco company paid nearly $1 million for the solution to an unsolved cryptographic code in Kryptos, a sculpture on CIA grounds, which will soon become an online challenge for puzzle enthusiasts worldwide.

New coral research identified specific ocean regions where cooler currents and favorable environmental conditions are helping protect reefs from the worst impacts of global warming and climate change.

AI technologies are accelerating humanity's efforts in the 'race against extinction' of vital plant species by helping identify and save new specimens while unlocking vast genomic data on fungi.