| |    | | (Orlando Sentinel/Getty Images) | Hey, hey, Space Fans! Welcome to our midweek edition of your daily dose of space and today's top story has NASA over the moon. Or maybe around it. That's because NASA says it's fixed the helium system issue on its Artemis 2 moon rocket upper stage and is now preparing to return to the pad. Is an April 1 launch on the table? You'll have to read the story to find out.
And that's not all! Amazing photos of the Blood Moon eclipse are still coming in, we find out if astronaut poop is the key to Mars and a wild quadruple star system has been found! See it all below. | | |  | If you need a break from real-life space exploration (but why!?), these streaming deals can get you started. Now, you can watch new sci-fi movies and shows or relive the classics, and save big at the same time. They're deals even a Ferengi could enjoy. | | | | Artemis 2: NASA's next moonshot | |  | | (NASA) | So Artemis 3 isn't landing astronauts on the moon in 2028. But now it's launching in 2027. But we're still landing on the moon in 2028. Maybe twice with Artemis 4 and 5? Yeah, NASA's Artemis moon landing plan has changed ... a lot. We explain it here. | | |  | | (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images) | The stunning Blood Moon lunar eclipse of 2026 may be over, but the photos, they're still a-flowing. From city skylines to remote dark skies, skywatchers worldwide captured the total lunar eclipse 2026 in all its crimson glory and you can see our favorites here. | | |  | | (NASA/Bill Ingalls) | So remember last year when Russia's space agency Roscosmos launched astronauts to the International Space Station, but damaged their launch pad Site 31, grounding all future Soyuz flights? Well, they've finally fixed it. Here's what happened. | | |  | | (Robert Lea (created with Canva)) | Looking a bit deeper into space, astronomers have discovered a strange 4-star system, itself a rare find, but it also fits between Jupiter and the sun? Why so smol? | | |  | | (NASA) | Was Mark Watney in "The Martian" right? Apparently, because scientists have a new idea on how to build a sustainable base on Mars and it involves astronaut poop. We're not joking. | | |  | | (Amazon MGM) | Before the James Webb Space Telescope became the master of the universe, there was He-Man. Now he's getting a new movie and we've got everything you need to know about this return to the planet Eternia. | | |  | | (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy) | Today's space photo of the day comes from the James Webb Space Telescope, which captured a stunning photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 5134, which sits 65 million light-years from Earth. It's so awesome, we even found a video for you. Check it out. | |  | | (NASA/JPL/Galileo) | Hey, you're at the end of the newsletter, so here's a treat. On this day in 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first-ever photo of the rings of Jupiter! Did you know Jupiter even had rings? No? Well, neither did anyone else until Voyager 1 took its photos. See how it happened here. That will do it for today's space dispatch. Thanks for joining us and we'll see you again tomorrow! Keep looking up! Tariq Malik Editor-in-Space, Space.com | | | | Stay up-to-date on all things space science, news, and entertainment by subscribing to our newsletters. | |  | | | | | | | Future US LLC © | | Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036 | | | |
