| |    | | (AeroVironment) | It's Tuesday space fans, and NASA has announced some significant changes to its planned Artemis moon exploration campaign.
The agency says it will pause its plans for a Gateway lunar space station and instead focus first on establishing a moon base. In order to do that, NASA will "increase the tempo of lunar activity, sending rovers, instruments, and technology demonstrations" over the coming years to help build out the necessary infrastructure.
In other news, NASA has also announced it will aim to launch the Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the "first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft," in 2028 and send a fleet of tiny "Skyfall" helicopters to Mars. | | |   | | (Future/NordVPN) | With up to $513 off, a $50 Amazon voucher and four months free, you can watch sci-fi streaming shows and movies like 'Monarch: Legacy of monsters' securely while traveling. | |  | | (Harry Bennett / Future) | Do you want to get a better look at the universe around you? We've spotted these early deals on our best binoculars, cameras and telescopes, so you don't have to blow your budget for mind-blowing views. | | |  | | (NASA, Google Earth, © JakeFromStateFarm) | NASA has released a "strewn field" map of where meteorites may have fallen after a rare daytime fireball explosively disintegrated in the skies over Houston on Saturday (March 21) evening. | | |  | | (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Dale Kocevski (Colby College)/ Robert Lea (created with Canva)) | One of the most intriguing, and dare I say, enigmatic populations to pop up in the James Webb Space Telescope's groundbreaking observations are the Little Red Dots. These aren't just any old cosmic curiosities; they're very distant objects in the universe whose light has been stretched to longer, redder wavelengths due to the universe's expansion, meaning we're seeing them as they appeared in the early universe. But what ARE they, really? | | |  | | (Yuichiro Chino/Getty Images) | So we've all heard a lot about AI. You might be using some form of it right now every day. But how could AI change how astronomy works? Astrophysicist Paul Sutter weighs in on how we're just scratching the surface of what the innovative collaboration between human astronomers and AI can unlock. | | |  | | Ballantine Books & Amazon MGM | Andy Weir's epic sci-fi book "Project Hail Mary" has made one giant leap onto big screens as a feature film starring Ryan Gosling, but how faithful is the movie to the book? Here's 10 things we spotted. | | |  | | (NASA) | For our space history moment today, we're going back to 1961 and the dawn of the Space Age. On March 24, 1961, NASA's Mercury Redstone rocket launched on its last uncrewed flight before it started sending astronauts into space, but the mission wasn't something originally planned. See how it happened here. | | | | Stay up-to-date on all things space science, news, and entertainment by subscribing to our newsletters. | |  | | | | | | When you purchase through links in our content, we may earn an affiliate commission.
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