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NASA and the Canadian Space Agency announced the names of four astronauts who will orbit the Moon as part of the upcoming historic Artemis II mission. They will be the first people to fly to the Moon in more than 50 years.

Paid Twitter Blue subscribers can now create tweets of up to 4,000 characters long instead of the previous 280-character limit. As of now, the new feature is available in the United States only.

Instagram is turning DMs into an all-in-one customer service tool as it introduces a new feature that lets Instagram shoppers in the United States place orders right through DMs, as well as ask sellers follow-up questions about their products and track orders.

Cryptocurrency trading and investing platform Coinbase launched its new NFT marketplace available to a small number of beta testers who will be able to create, buy, sell, and share NFTs.

The company of the American entrepreneur Elon Musk SpaceX has won a NASA contract to create the lunar lander for landing astronauts on the Moon as part of the Artemis program.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter touched the surface of the Red Planet after being dropped off from the Perseverance rover. A little more than a week is left before the first flight of the helicopter.

236 years ago, US President Thomas Jefferson prompted the US Congress to declare the dollar the country's official currency. The dollar's birthday is celebrated annually on April 1st.