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Publicly available photos show a medium-sized rock trapped in the wheel of NASA's Mars Rover, Perseverance. It was seen in February and March.

There’s a Rock Stuck in NASA’s Mars Rover’s Wheel

By Lonnie Lee Hood

More than a month after an errant rocket was spotted tumbling towards the Moon, it finally crashed into the lunar surface.

A Derelict Rocket Just Smashed Into the Moon, Experts Say

By Tony Ho Tran

The US military is looking to have spy satellites patrol the orbit around the Moon according to a recently shared video, as spotted by Ars Technica.

US Military Announces Plans for Satellite Orbiting the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's plans to return astronauts to the Moon are turning out to be an absolute disaster, according to today's status update.

NASA Descends Into Chaos as Moon Program Revealed to Be Way Behind, Over Budget

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Rover merged six images on Friday to complete a photo of a tiny, microscopic formation on Mars that looks like a flower.

Mars Rover Snaps Image That Looks a Lot Like an Organism, Though of Course It’s Almost Certainly Not

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Chelyabinsk meteorite that exploded in the Russian sky back in 2013 could actually have been involved in the creation of Earth's Moon.

2013 Meteor May Have Been Involved in Creating the Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Experts Say China Is Probably Lying About the Rocket Crashing Into the 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.

China Says Rover Discovered Glass Spheres on the Dark Side of the 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.

SpaceX Director Teases Moon Base Staffed by “Hundreds or Thousands”

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.

Economist Mocked for Proposing That We Sell the 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.

A Derelict SpaceX Rocket Is About to Crash Into the 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

SpaceX Could Get Sued When Its Derelict Rocket Crashes Into the Moon, Experts Say

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.

Guy With Huge Telescope Spots Tumbling SpaceX Rocket About to Crash Into 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.

Fake News! The Rocket Crashing Into the Moon Is NOT SpaceX’s

By Tony Ho Tran

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

Scientists Find Life-Friendly Exoplanet They Say Is Close Enough to Visit

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.

Harvard Astronomer Says He’s Building Device to Capture “High Resolution Image” of UFO

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.

Scientists Propose Mission to Mars Powered by Giant Laser on Earth

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.

Scientists Fail to Spot Aliens After Scanning Skies for Seven Whole Hours

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.

NASA’s Mars Lander Believed to Be Dying After Furious Dust Storm

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Former NASA Head Creates Startup to Build Robot Outpost Near 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.

Photo of Mars Crater Looks Amazingly Like a Giant Tree Stump

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 Rover Does “Twist on One Foot” to Shake Off More Pebbles

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.

NASA’s Mars Rover Successfully Shakes Off Obstructing Pebbles

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Puzzled by Purple Coating on Mars Rocks

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.

The Moon’s Backside Is Surprisingly Sticky, China’s Rover Finds

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.

Scientists Extremely Intrigued by Possible Sign of Life on 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.

Elon Musk Warns There Soon Won’t Be Enough People Left to Populate 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.

China Building “Artificial Moon” Facility That Simulates Low Gravity With Magnets

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.

NASA’s Mars Rover Has Run Into Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

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

China Says Its Lander Has Detected Water on the 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.

Remember the “Moon Cube”? China Just Published a New Photo and Uhhhhh

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.

Former NASA Scientist Explains How We Could Terraform 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.

NASA Is Installing Amazon Alexa on Its Next Moon Mission, for Some Cursed Reason

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.

China’s Mars Orbiter Shares Incredible New Selfies

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.

NASA’s Chief Scientist Quits, Says He Has a Plan to Terraform 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.

Elon Musk Says He’ll Have Boots on Mars Within Ten Years

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.

NASA Says Its Mars Helicopter Does Not Have the Log4j Security Flaw

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.

Scientists Opening Sealed Container From Final Moon Landing

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.

Scientists Spot Hidden Water in Mars’ Grand Canyon

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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.

People Have Some Wild Theories About the Cube China Found on the 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.

Chinese Rover Exploring What Appears to Be Cube-Shaped Object on Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA Rover’s New Selfie Will Make You Feel Like You’re on Mars, and Maybe a Little Drunk

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.

Simulated Mars Base Got Kinda Rebellious, Worrying Scientists

By Tony Ho Tran

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

Scientists Say There May Be “Humans” All Over the Universe

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.

Scientists Propose Jumpstarting Mars’ Magnetic Field to Make It Habitable

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.

Scientists Say Mini-Black Holes May Have Smashed Into the 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.

NASA’s Moon Orbiter Almost Crashed Into India’s Moon Orbiter

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."

Elon Musk: We Have to Get to Mars Because of “Nuclear Armageddon” on Earth

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."

2024 NASA Landing to Explore Mysterious Magnetic “Swirl” on 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.

Researchers Say CO2 “Traps” On Moon Could Be Used to Grow Plants

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.

NASA Mars Rover Samples Mars With “Greenish Mineral”

By Victor Tangermann

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

NASA Reveals Moon Location for Ice Drilling Mission Next Year

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.

Study: Earth Has Another Tiny Moon That Broke Off from the Big One

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.

The Moon Has Enough Oxygen Buried Beneath Its Surface to Sustain Billions of People

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.

People Keep Sneaking Onto Simulated Mars Base for Social Media Clout

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.

NASA Head Says Moon Landing Delayed a Year, Blames Jeff Bezos’ Lawsuit

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.

NASA Rover Detects Organic Molecules on the Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

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.

Elon Musk Says He Wants to Use Wealth to Get Humans to Mars, Not Pay Taxes

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.

NASA Begs Companies to Clone Its Super-Expensive Moon Rocket for Cheap

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.

Microbes Could Help Produce Rocket Fuel for Return Trips from 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.

SpaceX Shares Spicy Video of Its Mars Rocket Being Tested

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.

Head of NASA Suggests That UFOs Could Be Alien Technology

By Jon Christian