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It appears that nobody knows exactly what is going on with that rocket that's set to crash into the moon.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

China’s Yutu-2 rover just won’t stop making weird discoveries on the Moon. Its latest are several mysterious glass spheres found on the far side of the lunar surface. 
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

At a space conference this week, SpaceX director of civil space development Nick Cummings teased future plans of a Moon base.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

It's illegal for any one nation to lay claim to property in outer space, but that's not stopping one economic think tank from pushing for lunar property sales.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

An old SpaceX rocket is about to reach its final destination after a roughly six year journey — and crash on the Moon in spectacular fashion.
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Some legal experts believe that there could be grounds to sue Elon Musk and SpaceX for the rocket crash — though it likely won’t happen
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

An aging SpaceX rocket is on a collision course with the moon — and one space enthusiast has captured it on video.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Whoops. It turns out that reports of a SpaceX rocket crashing into the Moon were greatly exaggerated -- and it belongs to someone else entirely.
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of astronomers have discovered evidence for yet another exoplanet orbiting Proxima Centauri, our closest neighboring star.
Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

Avi Loeb wants to capture a high-res image of a UFO in two years with the Galileo Project, using telescopes on the Harvard observatory roof.
Exobiology

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The team from McGill University designed a rocket system that uses a 10-meter wide laser array on Earth to power up an orbiting spacecraft.
Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of astronomers have used the Murchison Widefield Array, a massive network of over 4,000 antennas in the Australian desert, to look for aliens.
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

After accruing even more dust during a recent storm, NASA scientists believe that the InSight Mars lander may finally be on its last legs. 
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Steve Jurczyk, former NASA administrator, has co-founded a commercial space infrastructure company to build robotic outposts near the Moon.
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

A new photo taken by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, or the TGO, shows a tree stump-like crater on Mars, providing insight into impacts on the Martian surface.
Mars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover did a little shimmy to loosen yet another pair of pebbles blocking its sample collection instrument.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has successfully ejected several pebbles obstructing its sample collection system since taking its sixth sample in December.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The Perseverance rover found evidence of this mysterious coloring on rocks at almost every site the craft has visited on Mars.
Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

Chinese researchers published a paper today in Science Robotics that revealed new data about the lunar surface gathered by the Yutu-2 rover.
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Despite having landed on Mars almost a decade ago, NASA's Curiosity rover is still leading to fascinating new discoveries — and the latest is a real doozy.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is warning that there may not be enough people to populate Mars if global birth rates keep dropping.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers in China are developing an "artificial Moon: facility that can simulate the gravity of the lunar surface with the help of magnets.
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Perseverance rover has run into a bit of trouble: small pieces of Mars rock are now obstructing the rover's sample collection system.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A global team of scientists says they've detected water on the Moon using data the China National Space Administration provided.
Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It was just a month ago that the world was introduced to the bizarre cube on the moon — and just like that, it's gone.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

An increasing number of experts are suggesting the dream of terraforming Mars and making it at least a little bit more habitable for humans is still alive.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

In yet another odd marriage of capitalism and space travel,  Lockheed Martin has announced that it will be sending an Amazon Echo as part of the upcoming Artemis 1 mission.
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

China's Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter has taken some incredible selfies with the massive surface of the Red Planet lurking ominously in the background.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Jim Green is leaving the space agency after four decades, but says he has plans to terraform Mars and make it habitable with a magnetic shield.
Mars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says humans may touch down on Mars in as little as ten years with his reusable Starship rocket.
Mars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Mars helicopter briefly lost connection last week, and it could be because of Apache Log4j flaw that allows hackers to attack with little effort.
Mars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team is ready to open a Moon soil container from the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. The opening will allow the extraction of precious lunar gases for testing.
Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

With the help of the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scientists discovered a huge deposit of water at the bottom of a Martian canyon.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Scientists Are Gonna Bawl Their Eyes When the Tiny Mars Chopper Dies
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

China spotted a puzzling "mystery house" on the surface of the Moon, a cube-shaped object hiding in plain sight. The internet had a field day as a result.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 captured images of a cube on the Moon's surface this week. The rover is moving in to check out the object.
Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA has shared a brand new selfie its Curiosity Mars rover took late last month — and it's a real doozy.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A recent long-term isolation experiment on a simulated Mars base found that participants often get a little distant and rebellious as time goes on. 
Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

Imagine, if you will, that future humans manage to travel to other worlds and find...more humans. 
Exobiology

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists are suggesting that we protect humans on Mars from deadly atmospheric conditions by kickstarting the planet's magnetic field.
Mars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of researchers say that the Moon is peppered with craters from miniature black holes — and they may reveal some breakthrough insights on dark matter. 
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Back in October, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently had to adjust its orbit to dodge out of the way of India's Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk warned of climate change, comet strikes, and dropping birth rates — not to mention, in his words, "good ol' nuclear Armageddon."
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is sending a spacecraft to the lunar surface to explore "one of the most distinctive and enigmatic natural features on the Moon."
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered that the Moon might have frozen pockets of carbon dioxide — and it could be used to create lunar greenhouses in the future.
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover has scooped up its next Martian soil sample — and this time, the rock has got a fascinating, new geological feature.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this month, NASA announced where it is planning to probe the lunar surface for water ice — potentially a watershed moment.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

In a new study, scientists say they found evidence that the quasi-Moon is an ancient fragment of the Earth’s primary Moon.
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

The Moon's top layer of rocky soil, known as "regolith," likely contains enough oxygen for 8 billion people to survive for about 100,000 years.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Dr. Shannon Rupert, director of the MDRS, recently penned an op-ed deriding the influx of sightseers to the Mars research station.
Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA boss Bill Nelson has made it clear: the mission to return humans to the Moon is delayed a year — and it’s mostly Jeff Bezos’ fault. 
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of researchers successfully tested a sample of Martian dirt by directing NASA's Curiosity rover to mix it with chemical reagents inside a cup.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Says We Need a Plan for When We Discover Alien Life
Exobiology

By Tony Ho Tran

Billionaire and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, has other goals in mind for his tremendous wealth: making humanity interplanetary.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is turning to the private industry to keep the doomed and Moon-bound Space Launch System alive — and for the next 30 year or so.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Georgia Tech scientists believe that microbes could be the key to producing the rocket fuel needed to take humans from Mars back to Earth.
Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

SpaceX has shared an exciting new 90-second montage dubbed "Gateway to Mars" of its gigantic Starship spacecraft prototypes being tested.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA boss Bill Nelson made some eyebrow-raising remarks about possible connections between military sightings of UFOs and the search for alien life.
Exobiology

By Jon Christian

The agency fully assembled the Space-Launch System (SLS) rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday night.
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA officials say that the US needs to invest in nuclear-powered spacecraft if it wants to beat its geopolitical rivals to Mars. 
Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

Kilm Shipenko, the Russian director of “The Challenge," told reporters at a news conference that he’d be willing to film a sequel on the Moon or Mars
Mars

By Tony Ho Tran

In which we examine the techincal, legal, and ethical aspects of Elon Musk painting his face on the surface of the Moon.
Moon

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California are projecting that humanity could become a multi-world species within the 21st century.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A man from Florida just returned a Moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission. It vanished without a trace until he bought it at a garage sale.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski