In the minutes following launch, there’s a fun and surprisingly useful way to tell when a spacecraft reaches weightlessness: a small stuffed animal starts to float. This “zero-g indicator” is an easy ...

NASA's Artemis II mission has an official moon mascot named RISE, a plushie designed by an 8-year-old. The RISE design was inspired by the "Earthrise" photo from the Apollo 8 mission. The Artemis II ...

A California native is going to space on Artemis II — and it’s not a human. RISE, a plushie designed by 8-year-old Lucas Ye, is joining four astronauts in space aboard Artemis II, which is set to ...

A second-grader's plush toy design has rocketed to space alongside astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen on board the Artemis II moon mission launch. Lucas Ye, 8, ...

How many Pokémon are there? If you've lost track over the years, you're not alone - after nine full generations, the total has ballooned from the original 151 into quadruple figures, and that's not ...