Intuitive Machines’ Odysseus landing during its descent towards the lunar surface. Image: Intuitive Machines It was a topsy-turvy month in spaceflight, with yet another lunar lander falling over and an upsetting new view showing NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter missing a rotor blade, among other memorable moments. February is the shortest month of the year, but it … Read more
For a year, a rogue tomato was missing in action on board the International Space Station (ISS), sparking rumors that an astronaut may have eaten it during a moment of weakness. It turns out that there were actually two missing tomatoes, not just one, found squished in a tiny ziplock bag, and they’re looking a … Read more
The curious case of the conspicuously absent cherry tomato has finally been put to rest eight months after the lab-grown edible went missing. Zillow Says You’ll Buy Your Next House With… AI? | AI Unlocked In space, no one can hear a tomato scream, even when it’s lost. NASA’s Veg-05 experiment, a project focusing on … Read more
Expedition 70 Flight Engineers Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara in front of the International Space Station’s Cold Atom Lab. Photo: NASA Two NASA astronauts are gearing up for their first spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) for maintenance work in low Earth orbit, marking just the second time two women will exit the station … Read more