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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

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

NASA Completes Assembly of Rocket for Upcoming Moon Mission

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.

NASA Says It Needs Nuclear Rockets to Put People on Mars Before China

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

Russian Director Who Filmed Movie on ISS Says He’s Doing the Moon or Mars Next

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.

Could Elon Musk Paint a Giant Picture of His Face on the 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.

NASA Scientists Predict Settlements on Moons of Saturn, Jupiter

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.

Florida Man Returns Missing NASA Moon Rock he Bought at Garage Sale

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter had to delay its 14th flight, scheduled for September 18, due to an "anomaly" with its flight-control motors.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Is In Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

The Verge has obtained legal filings that show NASA's frustration with Blue Origin's request to negotiate its $5.9 billion lunar lander contract.

In Newly-Released Documents, NASA Scoffed at Jeff Bezos’ Moon Lawsuit

By Victor Tangermann

The Sun is about to pass between Mars and Earth, so NASA and the CNSA are putting their various rovers into safe mode until it moves.

Every Mars Rover Is About To Go Into Safe Mode

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson once again confirmed that Jeff Bezos' lawsuit will definitely delay the Artemis Moon missions and landing.

Head of NASA: Jeff Bezos’ Lawsuit Likely to Delay Human Moon Landing

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese scientists are studying lunar rock samples to assess whether or not they're a good fuel source for nuclear fusion.

China Analyzing Moon Rocks as Potential Fusion Power Source

By Tony Ho Tran

A team of Chinese scientists have developed a concept for a Mars drone that weighs 1,100 pounds and could travel at five times the speed of sound.

Chinese Scientists Working on Mars Drone That Flies Faster Than Sound

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists at The University of Manchester have come up with a macabre new way to turn Martian soil into a stronger material: human blood, sweat, and tears.

Scientists Suggest Mixing “Astronaut Blood” With Mars Dust to Create Horrific Shelters

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance finally managed to scoop up and study rock samples after a series of baffling failures and mishaps.

It Worked! NASA’s Mars Rover Definitely Scooped up Rock Samples This Time

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists got an incredible look at Kleopatra, also known as the "dog bone asteroid," which is spinning so fast it might rip itself apart.

Rapidly Spinning “Dog Bone” Asteroid Near Mars Could Break Itself Apart

By Dan Robitzski

China's Chang'e-5 orbiter, the spacecraft that helped ferry Moon rocks back to Earth last year before heading to deep space, just started a return journey.

Chinese Probe Returns to Moon From Deep Space, for Unknown Purpose

By Dan Robitzski

NASA says that its Perseverance rover has finally collected samples of Mars rocks, but the photo offered up as proof doesn't show too much.

NASA Claims Rover Collected Mars Rock, But We Wanna See Proof

By Dan Robitzski

Instead of taking extra years to develop and test a new rocket, China's space program may modify existing, flight-tested rockets for a crewed Moon mission.

Chinese Official Says Rocket For Human Moon Landing Already Built

By Dan Robitzski

China's National Space Science Center (CNNSC) has shown off a prototype for a "Mars cruise drone" that looks extremely familiar.

China Appears to Be Working on a Clone of NASA’s Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

To celebrate 100 days on Mars, China's national space agency released a number of photos showing the path its Mars rover took.

China Releases Beautiful New Photos from the Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's SLS rocket and Orion are still undergoing tests that were supposed to finish earlier this Summer. Now the agency is blaming the pandemic.

NASA Source: No Way Artemis Moon Mission Is Launching This Year

By Dan Robitzski

After NASA's Mars rover Perseverance messed up trying to collect rock samples, the agency is trying again somewhere else.

NASA Has a New Plan After Mars Rover Fumbles Rock Collection

By Dan Robitzski

NASA administrator Bill Nelson has confirmed that Blue Origin's lawsuit against the agency will result in "further delay" for NASA's return to the Moon.

NASA Head Confirms Blue Origin Lawsuit Will Delay Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

Watch the Rare “Triple Transit” From Jupiter’s Moons

Watch the Rare “Triple Transit” From Jupiter’s Moons

By Tony Ho Tran

The Zhurong rover has officially finished its 90-sol mission to explore Utopia Planitia on the martian surface — but it's going to keep working.

China Declares “Mission Complete” for Mars Rover Zhurong

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has peered into the sky for an epic time lapse — and caught the Red Planet's tiny moon Deimos.

NASA Rover’s New, Gorgeous Time Lapse Spots Tiny Martian Moon

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just got its first round of funds from NASA to develop a lunar lander capable of sending the first astronauts to the surface of the Moon.

SpaceX Gets Huge Check From NASA for Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX founder Elon Musk hinted that Starship will likely be ready to land astronauts on the Moon before the projected 2024 launch date.

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Will “Probably” Land Humans on Moon Before 2024

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk boasted about Starship's reusability via tweet, saying that it’ll help drive more cost-effective missions to the Moon and Mars.

Elon Musk: Each Starship Could Travel to Mars a Dozen Times

By Tony Ho Tran

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity has embarked on its 11th flight on the Red Planet's surface, flying to record heights, reaching altitues of almost 40 feet.

NASA Mars Helicopter Flies Super High, Spots Rover Way Down on Ground

By Victor Tangermann

After Perseverance tried and failed to collect rock samples on Mars, NASA insists that the blame lies squarely on the rocks' shoulders.

After Mars Rover Fails to Collect Rock, NASA Blames Rock

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suspect that there could be past or present microbial life beneath the surface of Mars that survives thanks to radioactivity.

NASA Scientists Suggest Nuclear-Powered Life Under Mars Surface

By Dan Robitzski

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, it will take about eight Starship and Super Heavy booster launches to fill up one lunar variant for a trip to the Moon.

Elon Musk Says It Could Take Eight Starship Launches to Fuel Up a Single Moon Trip

By Victor Tangermann

Juno has created a gorgeous infrared map of Jupiter's moon Ganymede during a flyby last month, including the first-ever glimpse of its north polar region.

NASA’s Juno Probe Creates Stunning Map of Jupiter’s Largest Moon

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of scientists argue that once upon a time, the Gale crater on Mars was a mere series of ponds, according to Curiosity data.

Scientists Say NASA’s Mars Rover Is on the Site of Ancient Ponds, Not a Huge Lake

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Perseverance rover failed to collect its first ever rock samples from Mars to send back to Earth on Friday. Researchers believe the rock's to blame.

Mars Rover Tries to Collect Rock to Send Back to Earth, Fails Miserably

By Tony Ho Tran

The Moon naturally churns rocks from deep within its mantle back to the surface, and NASA wants to grab some for analysis.

NASA Scientists Want to Obtain “Fragments” From Deep Inside Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has put together a workgroup called "The Galileo Project" to investigate evidence of alien civilizations.

New Harvard Project Will Investigate Alien Technology

By Victor Tangermann

Using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists found the first ever evidence of water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Ganymede.

NASA’s Hubble Finds Evidence of Water Vapor on One of Jupiter’s Moons

By Victor Tangermann

A Tesla's Autopilot system got confused as it cruised down the highway and mistook the Moon for an endless string of yellow traffic lights.

Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Moon for Yellow Traffic Light

By Dan Robitzski

A wobble in the Moon's orbit, coupled with rising sea levels, is about to make coastal flooding a whole lot worse for coastal cities.

NASA Says a Change in the Moon’s Orbit Will Make Flooding on Earth Worse

By Dan Robitzski

Amateur astronomer Kai Ly pored over years of data to find and confirm a previously-undiscovered moon that's orbiting around Jupiter.

Jupiter Officially Has Yet Another Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover has made its next big discovery: a patch of rock that "is probably exposed bedrock," according to an update.

NASA Mars Rover Found Bedrock That Looks Like Flagstones

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's groundbreaking Mars Helicopter has sent back some stunning color pictures it took on July 5 while flying over the Red Planet's rocky landscape.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Sends Back Stunning Color Photos

By Victor Tangermann

NASA engineers are already dreaming up bigger and better ideas for Mars helicopters based on the surprising success of Ingenuity.

NASA Is Already Working on a Bigger, Better Mars Helicopter

By Dan Robitzski

A subsidiary of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency is proposing to send a nuclear power station to Mars to power a future Russian base.

Russia Proposes Nuclear Power Plant on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Clay samples from Mars suggest that the Red Planet once experienced a long-lasting era of temperate, habitable conditions.

Clay Dug Up by NASA Mars Rover Makes It Seem Like Red Planet Could’ve Supported Life

By Dan Robitzski