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A team of scientists developed a proof-of-concept system that could generate fuel for astronauts out of Mars' atmosphere.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

In a Medium post, NASA engineer Evan Hilgemann explores what its actually like to drive a Mars rover. It's simpler than one might think.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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Exobiology

By Jon Christian

The team in charge of recovering China's successfully returned lunar samples in Inner Mongolia wore exoskeletons to help them trudge through the snow.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

In exchange for technical support from Canada, NASA will fly a Canadian astronaut to lunar orbit, making them the first non-American to reach the Moon.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists modified a Boston Dynamics Spot robot that they say could explore Mars to find a suitable location for a human outpost.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

A retired Israeli general turned whisteblower has claimed that aliens are not only real, but have made contact, and that the world isn't ready to know.
Exobiology

By Foster Kamer

China's lunar probe has officially returned with the first pristine samples collected from the Moon's surface in almost half a century.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

After studying hundreds of marsquakes, data from NASA's InSight rover suggests that the crust of Mars is layered like a three-tiered cake.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of physicists suggests that treating the Sun like a giant gravitational lens would give us a clear view of distant exoplanets.
Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has officially announced the first team of American astronauts headed to the Moon as soon as 2024 as part of its Artemis program.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has powered up the core stage of its Space Launch System (SLS), a heavy lift rocket that's meant to one day allow Americans to return to the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that he is "highly confident" that his space company will land humans on the Martian surface as soon as 2026.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The Chinese space agency instructed part of the Chang'e-5 spacecraft to crash back into the Moon after its job was done so it wouldn't become space junk.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just published a detailed report on the upcoming Artemis Moon missions, including information on the planned lunar base camp.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is paying startups for any Moon dust they collect on missions scheduled for the next few years, but the payment is largely symbolic.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

China's lunar lander Chang'e-5 just beamed back color photos of the surface of the Moon — and they're a lot more beige than what you'd expect.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China's robotic Chang'e-5 space probe successfully gathered up lunar samples and is poised to be the first successful lunar retrieval mission since 1976.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the Moon, where it's expected to bring the first lunar samples back to earth in almost 50 years.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Musk elaborated on his vision of establishing a permanent foothold on Mars, claiming that "life in glass domes" will come first — and then terraforming.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists identified massive ripples on the surface of Mars likely formed by an ancient megaflood and planet-covering storm clouds.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent report, NASA admitted that landing the first astronauts on the Moon since the Apollo era in 2024 might be a bit of a stretch.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Metalysis, a UK-based engineering firm, has signed a contract with the European Space Agency to investigate ways to extract breathable air from Moon dust.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

In July, a NASA launch will send vials of human cremains and DNA samples to their final resting place on the surface of the Moon.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers have brought a wild concept back from the grave: a liquid-mirror telescope, 100 meters in diameter, built on the surface of the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

An independent review board assembled by NASA urged the space agency to proceed with an amibitous plan to gather Mars samples and bring them to Earth.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is now accepting contractor proposals for its plan to power lunar and Martian outposts with small nuclear fission reactors.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency just signed off on two years worth of  feasibility studies, clearing an exoplanet-studying space telescope for launch in 2029.
Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

When Joe Biden takes office, he may shift NASA's priorities away from space exploration and toward a renewed focus on climate change.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA commissioned Nokia to build a 4G network on the Moon, but doing so could spell doom for radio astronomers trying to filter out all the noise.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

There's a mysterious asteroid stuck in Mars' gravitational pull, and astronomers suspect it might be the Moon's long-lost twin.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Upon digging through Starlink's terms of service, eagle-eyed beta testers discovered they were signing up for a lot more than they might have thought.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter just spotted something unusual on the surface of the Red Planet: a "triplet" crater.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Using the ALMA radio telescope in Chile, a team of NASA scientists spotted a highly unusual molecule in the atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA and the ESA have formally partnered up to develop the Gateway space station that will orbit the Moon as part of the Artemis program.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists took the closest look yet at Psyche, a massive asteroid orbiting our Sun that's thought to be a planetary core that got destroyed.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Finding evidence of water on the Moon is a tantalizing prospect — but only meaningful insofar as we're able to actually make use of it.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Big Moon Surprise Is That Lunar Soil Contains Water
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent interview, SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell laid out the company's plans to bring its Starlink broadband satellite technology to Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just paid Bell Labs $14.1 million to develop a 4G network — on the Moon.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is funding research toward a camera that can detach from a spacecraft and film it landing from the surface of another world.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Speaking at the Mars Society's convention last week, Elon Musk claimed that SpaceX has a "fighting chance" to send a Starship to Mars in 2024.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Mars was in opposition while passing near Earth this week, so space photographers had a field day with the rare occurrence.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is now running underwater tests for the spacesuits it plans on using for the upcoming series of Artemis missions to the Moon.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's four-wheeled rover called DuAxel can split into two separate two-wheeled rovers, and is intended to explore hard to reach places in faraway places.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers suggest checking the surface of the Moon for ancient rocks that could have been blasted away from Venus during asteroid strikes.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified 24 distant exoplanets that all seem to have even better conditions for hosting life than Earth does.
Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency just handed out a $14 million dollar contract to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion system in space.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China just showed off a rocket that could send astronauts to the Moon — but when is still a big question mark.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

It may be many years away — but the Space Force is already considering the possibility of putting the first troops into space and establish a base there.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Earth will likely capture a new minimoon in its orbit later this year. But signs suggest that it's actually a hunk of space garbage.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Japan Outlines Plan to Power Spacecraft With Moon Ice
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The Italian scientists who found an undergound lake beneath the south pole of Mars revisited their data — and uncovered three more.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists say they've ascertained how radioactive the Moon is — a finding that could have implications for the future of space travel.
Moon

By Jon Christian

Cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, who's heading to the International Space Station next month on a Soyuz rocket, says he would be nice to any aliens he met.
Exobiology

By Jon Christian

A team of scientists claim they have determined a way to figure out if there's life living underground on faraway places, including the Moon and Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

By digging through infrared images of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, scientists have found "strong evidence" of "fresh ice" in its northern hemisphere.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory are launching a spacecraft to the far side of the Moon so it can listen to extremely faint radio signals.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is yet on another budget crunch in its efforts to realize the Trump administration's ambitious plans to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has built a system that could make landing on the Moon or Mars a whole lot less risky — and it already has plans to test it out on an upcoming mission.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers are suggesting we could use one of the most common organic polymers on Earth to construct shelters on Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, acidic fluids may have long destroyed evidence of past biological life inside Martian clay on the Red Planet's surface.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Japan's space agency has announced it's planning to film Mars's mysterious moons with cameras that can shoot in 8K ultra-high-definition.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA announced it's soliciting commercial companies to collect space resources, including Moon "dirt," an effort to create a marketplace for space rocks.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann