After a day of testing the Orion capsule high above the planet, the crew of the NASA mission became the first people to head into deep space since 1972.

Native Americans had dice and games of probability 12,000 years ago, according to a new study. That’s far earlier than the practice is thought to have existed anywhere in the Old World.

The launch of Artemis II captured the tenor of the times in a country that can still do big things but seems forever mired in big problems.

With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, she was one of three prominent researchers of great apes who were sometimes called the “trimates.”

A key engine burn Thursday is expected to put NASA's Artemis II astronauts on an irreversible path around the moon.

Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry.

As strikes continue on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the real danger isn’t the explosion, but what happens if critical safety systems fail—and how that risk could spread across the Gulf.

Efforts to study, prepare for and address climate change have taken a major hit. But a few programs are hanging on thanks to bipartisan support.

Peter Frazier’s lab at Cornell worked to improve how blood was stored and transported for armed forces. Then he received a stop-work order.

With the Artemis II launch, NASA reignited its long-dormant ambitions for crewed lunar exploration.

Epia Neuro’s brain-computer interface will include a motorized glove to help stroke patients recover movement in their hand.

The U.S. space agency launched a lunar flyby Wednesday, but Beijing is pursuing its own space program with formidable focus. Here’s what we know about it, in photos and videos.

NASA's Artemis II mission is underway. The astronauts are scheduled to fly around the moon Monday. Here's what to know about their 10-day journey through space.

The U.S. space agency launched a lunar flyby Wednesday, but Beijing is pursuing its own space program with formidable focus. Here’s what we know about it, in photos and videos.

The crew, three Americans and a Canadian, are the first humans to travel to the moon in more than 50 years. They will not land on the surface, but the mission will pave the way for future visits.

The crew, three Americans and a Canadian, are the first humans to travel to the moon in more than 50 years. They will not land on the surface, but the mission will pave the way for future visits.

Space enthusiasts watched with awe and joy as a massive rocket roared into space on the first crewed flight to the moon in more than 50 years. Other Americans were detached, or oblivious.

The Universal Waste Management System aboard the Orion capsule is an innovation in deep space toiletry (if it works).

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

After orbiting Earth, the Orion capsule will carry the astronauts to the moon and arrive by Monday night.

Eli Lilly’s once-daily Foundayo is the second obesity pill to receive FDA approval. It will compete with Novo Nordisk’s pill version of Wegovy.

Low-rank adaptation, data augmentation, and chain-of-thought reasoning are among the techniques enabling accent-free polyglot outputs, improved expressiveness, and reliable synthesis.

Locals and visitors who came for the moon launch are jockeying for prime spots to see NASA's Artemis II mission lift off, with some resorting to extreme measures.

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.

Harrison Schmitt, now 90, was on the Apollo 17 mission — the last time humans visited the moon. On Wednesday, NASA's Artemis II mission aims to kickstart a return.

Dr. Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 astronaut and the last person to walk on the moon, speaks with NBC News’ Aaron Gilchrist about his experience, moon rock samples, and the significance of the upcoming Artemis II mission for the next generation.

Here’s everything you need to know about the Artemis II mission, the long-awaited (and long-delayed) human return to the moon.

The GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System was due for completion in 2016. Ten years later, the software for controlling the military’s GPS satellites still doesn’t work.

NASA Artemis II astronauts Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch and Victor Glover and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen are set to launch as early as April 1.

The squeaking of sneakers on a basketball court is one of sports’ most recognizable sounds. NBC News’ Steven Romo examines a recent study exploring the science behind this noisy phenomenon.

NASA plans to launch four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon as early as Wednesday. Here's what to know about the Artemis II mission.

Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.

If all goes to plan, Calgary-born Jenni Gibbons won't be on the rocket — but she will still perform a critical role in its launch and voyage through space.

The spring heat wave that baked the West for over a week has finally moved along, after setting more than 1,500 temperature records across 11 states.

Photos show the rocket and spacecraft that NASA will use to launch astronauts toward the moon for the first time in more than 50 years.

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke speaks with NBC News' Tom Costello about his health issues that prompted the first-ever medical evacuation from the International Space Station earlier this year.

Amid the West’s snow drought, several ski areas are storing up manmade snow and saving it under mats for next ski season — a process known as "snow farming."

Some Colorado residents have already been told to reduce their water use — the earliest such restrictions ever imposed — following a heat wave and snow drought.

That’s good news, since the forecast is sunshine for the next 5 billion years.

Months into a supposed ceasefire in Gaza, doctors still have to smuggle in basic medical supplies—and treat new casualties of war.

NASA's Artemis return-to-the-moon program is years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget. Could a successful mission quiet its critics?

In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers.

Stumpy lives again

The Lunar Gateway station, largely already built with contractors Northrop Grumman and Vantor, formerly Maxar, was meant to be a space station parked in a lunar orbit.

As soon as April 1, four people will embark on a journey that will take them farther from the Earth than anyone has ever traveled before.

R3 Bio has a bold idea for replacing lab animals: genetically-engineered whole organ systems that lack a brain. The long-term goal, says a cofounder, is to make human versions.

A bright fireball that was spotted Saturday afternoon in the skies over southeastern Texas was confirmed to be a meteor that likely broke apart over the Houston area, according to NASA

An oppressive heat wave across much of the western United States had cities and their residents sweltering through conditions this weekend that are normally more common at the height of summer

After two storms struck Hawaii over the past week, causing flooding, officials warned that a large dam on the island of Oahu is at risk of failure.

Simplifying and clarifying the assembly code for core operations enabled automated optimization and verification.

“This will be so, so, so, so, so bad,” one analyst says.

While the United States and Europe are moving cautiously forward with clinical trials, China is racing toward the commercialization of brain implants.

An early-season heat wave that has been baking the West this week obliterated numerous all-time records in California and Arizona.

Ablation study clarifies trade-offs between accuracy and efficiency when using low-rank adaptation (LoRA) to fine-tune AI models.

A massive Western heat wave and a potential El Niño event raise concerns about a long stretch of unpredictable and extreme weather.

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.

By learning the idiosyncrasies of accumulated layers of legacy systems, AI agents can preserve institutional knowledge and provide a unified interface to a range of services.

The secret to this acrobatic skill lies in an extremely flexible part of the spine that allows cats to twist in the air and land safely.

Who needs a supercomputer when you can calculate pi with a box of sewing needles?

As AI agents become more autonomous, the key challenge isn't what they can do; it's how to design the human side of the equation.

What machine learning theorists learned using AI agents to generate proofs — and what comes next.

It's Natalie Wilkie's fourth career Paralympic gold medal for the Canadian flag-bearer and her ninth Paralympic medal overall. She also won a silver on Saturday.

As AI models grow larger, they become less insightful, not more. To ensure that they continue to learn, we need to reduce their inference time.

The mysterious depths of the Antarctic Ocean are home to only a handful of sea creatures.

Amazon Scholar Aravind Srinivasan coauthored a 2014 paper about forecasting civil unrest in Latin America, which won a test-of-time award at KDD 2025.

NASA Commander Jessica Meir leads an international crew, including France's second woman in space, to the ISS for eight-month mission of scientific research.

Just for fun, Xavier McKeever and his cross-country ski teammates once tasked ChatGPT to design a training plan for them.