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The original plan to launch NASA’s Artemis II mission this year has seen some changes, the agency announced today. Instead of launching in 2024 as NASA had planned, Artemis II won’t launch until September 2025 at the earliest, delaying each of the subsequent Artemis missions.The Artemis II delay is huge news, as Artemis II will see four astronauts travel around the Moon in the Orion spacecraft. Future Artemis missions will rely heavily on the data gathered from Artemis II, which means Artemis III—humanity’s…

With its checkered past, the 2024 Golden Globe Awards saw some historic diversity moments and wins – from its first Indigenous winner in 81 years, to a “Barbie” takeover. The annual ceremony, hosted Sunday night at L.A.’s Beverly Hilton Hotel, kicked off awards season with a couple milestones. Stand-up comedian and producer Jo Koy became the Globes’ first Filipino American host (and the second Asian host in the ceremony’s history, following Sandra Oh). Actor Lily Gladstone became the first Indigenous person to win a…

The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed toward the moon Monday, launching private companies on a space race to make deliveries for NASA and other customers.Astrobotic Technology’s lander caught a ride on a brand-new rocket, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan. The Vulcan streaked through the Florida predawn sky, putting the spacecraft on a roundabout route to the moon that should culminate with an attempted landing on February 23.“So, so, so excited. We are on our way to the moon!” Astrobotic chief…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLily Gladstone delivered the most rousing speech of the night at the Golden Globes, following her historic win for Killers of the Flower Moon.The 37-year-old actor, who stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s latest film about the early 1900s Osage Nation murders, has become the first star of Blackfeet and Nimiipuu heritage to win a Golden Globe. She…

It’s hard to understate just how much was at stake in Monday’s early morning launch of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur rocket: multiple major reputations, billions of dollars, a new moon lander, the country’s dreams for lunar exploration, brand new rocket engines flying for the first time, and what is quite literally ULA’s future. And ULA pulled it off. The company’s next-generation rocket Vulcan Centaur successfully lifted off in the early hours of Monday, and its primary payload, a lunar lander from…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for free“Hollywood is back!” These were perhaps the only words spoken by unfortunate Golden Globes host Jo Koy that his audience truly appreciated. Because if this year’s awards ceremony was anything to go by, Tinsel Town is well and truly in full swing once more.After a rough start, the Golden Globes managed to pull off a high-energy, feel-good event thanks largely to the charismatic stars in…

Lily Gladstone made history as the first indigenous woman to win a Best Actress Golden Globe for her celebrated performance in Killers of the Flower Moon.  After a standing ovation, Gladstone began her speech with a few words in the Blackfeet language, the “beautiful community and nation” that raised the actress, as she put it a few moments later. She then thanked her mom, who’s not Blackfeet, but “worked tirelessly to get our language into our classrooms so I had a Blackfeet language teacher growing up.”…

Ahead of launch as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander is encapsulated in the payload fairing, or nose cone, of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket on November 21, 2023, at Astrotech Space Operations Facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch of Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One will carry NASA and commercial payloads to the Moon in early 2024 to study the lunar exosphere, thermal properties, and hydrogen abundance of the lunar…

Astrobotic’s Peregrine is gearing up for a chance to land on the Moon, hoping to become the first commercial lunar lander to touchdown on the dusty surface of the celestial body and pave the way for other private ventures to follow.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonThe lunar lander will ride on board United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan Centaur, which is scheduled for liftoff on Monday, January 8, at 2:18 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The historic launch will be broadcast live on NASA Television, the NASA app,…

Skeleton found in stone-lined grave. Credit: Cardiff University An early medieval cemetery has been discovered within the grounds of Fonmon Castle, near Barry, South Wales. Archaeologists from Cardiff University's School of History, Archaeology and Religion carried out a dig in the summer, with further radiocarbon dating and analysis revealing the…