| |    | | (Robert Lea (created with Canva)) | Happy Monday, Space Fans! Welcome to your daily dose of space from the Space.com team and our top story for you today asks a big question: Why does anything exist at all? The answer, it turns out, could hinge on black holes and antimatter. Find out how above.
And that's not all! We talk to Andy Weir on 'Project Hail Mary,' astronomers pan giant space mirror project and a new Russian cargo ship launch just hit a hiccup. See it all below! | | |   | | (Apple TV) | Season 5 of For All Mankind hits streaming services via Apple TV this week, but if you're gearing up for a trip to watch NASA's Artemis 2 launch, you'll need a secure way to stream it. Here's how to save 73% and score an extra gift card with NordVPN. | | | | Artemis 2: NASA's next moonshot | |  | | (NASA) | In case you missed it, NASA rolled its Artemis 2 SLS rocket and Orion back out to the pad last week and you can see our recap and video here. On Tuesday (March 24), NASA will make three live broadcasts on NASA+ and elsewhere for "Ignition," a set of panels outlining its updated plan to return astronauts to the moon under Artemis. Tune in @ Space.com starting at 9 a.m. ET. | | | | If you're like us and can't wait until NASA finally gets Artemis 2 off the ground, but need something to tide you over, look no farther than these spectacular photos of the northern lights after a powerful geomagnetic storm this weekend. Which is your favorite? | | |  | | (NASA/Roscosmos) | What should have been a routine uncrewed Russian Progress launch to the International Space Station suffered a bit of a hiccup after liftoff when one of its docking antennas didn't deploy. Will it be able to make to the ISS? Here's what we know. | | |  | | (Alan Dyer/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) | Astronomers are up in arms, protesting against a proposed constellation of tens of thousands of orbiting mirrors intended to reflect light onto ground-based solar power plants and SpaceX's envisioned one million orbiting data centers. See why they say "this is really intolerable." | | |  | | (Nick Ut/Getty Images) | NASA's sleekest new X-plane, the "quiet" supersonic X-59, experienced a malfunction on its second-ever test last week that prompted an early landing. Here's what we know about when it may fly again. | | | | Sci-fi author Andy Weir has won acclaim for his latest book-turned-movie "Project Hail Mary," but is his account of potential life in space accurate? We asked him to find out. Here's what he said. | | |  | | (Paramount) | Captain Kirk turns 95 just as the Star Trek franchise that made him a sci-fi icon hits its own 60th anniversary. Here's a warp down memory lane of his 10 most memorable "Star Trek" moments. | | |  | | (ESO/A. Feltre, F. Belfiore, G. Cresci et al.) | To kick off our photo of the day this week, we're starting with this absolutely psychedelic view of the Triangulum Nebula, which is some 3 million light-years away from Earth. See how the image was made here in our daily feature. | |  | | (John W. Draper) | On March 23, 1840, a New Yorker named John William Draper became the first person to take a photo of the moon. Before Draper photographed the moon, another photographer Louis Daguerre had tried to do the same, but his image came out fuzzy. Here's how Draper succeeded. | | | | And that's a wrap for our daily dose of Space to kick off the week. Be sure to visit Space.com Tuesday for live video and coverage of NASA's Artemis "Ignition" announcements.
Keep looking up this week!
Tariq Malik
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