Artemis II is now the farthest crewed mission from Earth in history. The occasion was marked by a number of poignant moments.

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current dwarfs every other ocean current in the world and drastically shapes our climate, but its formation was not straightforward.

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The water locked up in the Permanently Shadowed Regions (PSRs) of the Moon’s south pole is a critical resource if we are ever going to get a permanent lunar presence off the ground. But while we know the water ice there exists, we don’t really know how much. We have to move from general estimates to mineable-scale prospecting data. That is what Oasis-1, the newly proposed lunar prospecting mission from Blue Origin that was recently introduced at the 2026 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) is meant to do.

The study examines the brain activity of a woman who can consistently enter this non-ordinary state of consciousness without assistance from substances.