Where NASA's Artemis program actually stands in 2026: a successful Artemis II crewed flyby, the road to Artemis III's south-pole landing, the cancelled Lunar Gateway, and a restructured architecture built around SpaceX Starship HLS and Blue Origin's Blue Moon.
The search for extraterrestrial life in 2025: Perseverance's biosignatures on Mars, Europa Clipper's ocean hunt, Dragonfly at Titan, and Enceladus plume chemistry.