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NASA announced today that it has awarded three contracts to develop lunar landing systems in an effort to return astronauts to the Moon as soon as 2024.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The White House's 2021 budget would cripple NASA's ongoing and future Mars missions. It would also mean shutting down the Curiosity rover.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

China's space agency says that its mission to Mars is still happening "in coming months," and that the mission finally has an official name.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are suggesting we could explore the surface of Mars using a fleet of "nanocardboard" aircraft.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The team behind NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has transitioned to controlling the rover from their home offices amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA spotted a "dragon" in a image taken by University of Arizona's HiRISE camera attached to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday that encourages the mining of resources in space and on the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is funding research for a conceptual telescope called a "solar gravitational lens" that could observe distant exoplanets at an astonishing resolution.
Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has awarded a Phase 1 grant for a Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the far side of the Moon that could one day be deployed by wall-climbing robots.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

In an experiment, a team of European researchers attempted to use the main compound in human urine and lunar regolith to create a resilient concrete.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Say There Could Be Life on Mercury
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

Despite budget overruns — and a pandemic — NASA is determined to get its next Mars rover called "Perseverance" off the ground in July.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Bad news, space fans: NASA just announced they're gonna have reschedule that trip to the Moon they'd been planning in a few years.
Moon

By Foster Kamer

In a last-resort move to free up the InSight Mars rover's digging probe, NASA engineers programmed the rover to thwack it with a shovel.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Buzz Aldrin had some choice words of advice for Ars Technica's Eric Berger on how to survive self-isolation during the coronavirus outbreak.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of astrobiologists claim that organic molecules discovered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover could be evidence for early life on Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Even in spite of the coronavirus pandemic, China has remained on track to launch its planned mission to Mars later this year.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers from the University of New Mexico believe they have found the remains of Theia buried deep beneath the lunar surface in a new paper.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

"Unless we improve our rate of innovation dramatically, then there is no chance of a base on the moon or a city on Mars."
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

After a nation-wide stdudent contest, NASA has selected "Perseverance" as the name for its next Mars rover, set to launch later this year.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Curiosity rover snapped more than 1,000 images, which teams back on Earth composed into a 360 degree Martian landscape panorama.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have a new theory which may help explain the strange exoplanets whose shape suggests they must have the density of cotton candy.
Exoplanets

By Jacob Banas

Researchers have started analyzing data collected by China's Yutu-2 Moon rover's ground-penetrating radar. They found mostly Moon dust.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey suspect there's a small asteroid that caught itself in our planet's gravity, like a moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing a nuclear-powered rocket to move cargo around Earth's orbit.
Moon

By Jon Christian

A team of astronomers at Penn State just confirmed the existence of G 9-40b, a gigantic super-Earth only roughly 90 light years from Earth.
Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

Six new studies were published today, detailing some of the discoveries made by NASA's InSight Mars lander, including evidence of a strange glow in the sky.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

In an interview with British fashion and culture magazine The Face,  singer and visual artist Grimes revealed her wild plans to travel to Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

If there's life on Mars, experts agree, it's probably beneath the surface. Finding evidence could require some lateral thinking -- or boots on the ground.
Mars

By Jon Christian

Japanese space agency JAXA announced today it has greenlit a sample return mission to the Martian moon Phobos called the Martian Moons Exploration mission.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is building a huge dish in California that it hopes will allow Mars astronauts to communicate with Earth — using high-powered lasers.
Mars

By Jon Christian

CEO Elon Musk has dropped yet another hint that a Tesla Cybertruck could be headed to Mars aboard a SpaceX Starship rocket.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

A new documentary will follow Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa as he hunts for a "life partner" to join him on a trip around the Moon in 2023.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

Apply now! NASA is officially accepting astronaut applications for its next generation of astronauts that could one day travel to the Moon and Mars.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA will need $35 billion over the next four years to successfully complete the Artemis Moon mission, according to Human Spaceflight Chief Doug Loverro.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

In October 2019, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to snap a photo of a massive active dust devil — and you can now see it for yourself.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

NASA equipped the 2020 Mars rover with a powerful laser, capable of vaporizing rocks. It's an extreme way of learning what they're made of.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Monica Grady, a professor at Liverpool Hope University, claims that there is "almost a racing certainty" there's alien life on Jupiter's moon Europa.
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

A scientist and a fashion designer on working a "Martian death project" that would include a system to compost dead Mars colonists' corpses.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

Japanese billionaire Yukatu Maezawa had to break the hearts of 27,722 women, revealing that he cancelled the TV show to find himself a Moon trip companion.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover just experienced a technical glitch losing its orientation, forcing it to stop in its tracks.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have figured out a way to produce oxygen from Moon dust. The team just opened up their own "prototype oxygen plant."
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

In a series of tweets on Thursday evening, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed some more details of his greater plans to colonize Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Over 20,000 people have offered to become Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's flight companion on his trip around the Moon and "life partner."
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

An experimental NASA program is tinkering with the idea of building a Mars or Moon base out of living mushrooms that astronauts would grow onsite.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's new instrument, NEID, can measure the mass of a distant exoplanet with three times the sensitivity of any other equipment out there.
Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT scientists belive that the magnetic field of the Moon was caused by a crystallizing iron core "dynamo" about a billion years ago.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine proposed to send Japanese astronauts to the Moon in the late 2020s as part of a joint plan with the US.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists just shared new information on the bizarre class of exoplanets that they'e named "super-puffs" due to their cotton candy-like fluffiness.
Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski

The Moon’s surface could electrocute future astronauts as they plan to visit areas hit by very little charge-negating sunlight.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars 2020 rover rolled forward and backward for the first time inside a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, clearing small ramps.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Ad Astra CEO and former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz is building a plasma rocket engine that he thinks is our best bet to send people to Mars.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA researchers have created a "treasure map" detailing where they believe water ice exists just below the surface of Mars.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

After analyzing the atmospheres of 19 exoplanets, researchers determined that 14 contained water vapor — more than they'd anticipated.
Exoplanets

By Kristin Houser

Ohio University pulled a press release detailing a professor’s “evidence” that Mars is home to bugs, but won’t say if it stands behind the research.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

New studies suggest that planet-wide dust storms and gigantic plumes called dust towers could have sucked up the planet's surface water.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

IKEA interior designer Christina Levenborn just helped researchers outfit the Mars Desert Research Station, a Mars analogue habitat in the Utah desert.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is about to test a prototype cosmic radiation-blocking vest by strapping it to a dummy and sending ti around the Moon.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Roscosmos announced plans to build an observatory on its planned Moon base so that it can better spot potentially dangerous asteroids approaching Earth.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

The Indian government released a short report detailing its Moon lander Vikram's demise in early September — the first time it admitted its lander crashed.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A new deepfake shows what it would have looked like if the Apollo 11 mission failed and then-president Nixon had to deliver the backup speech he had ready.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

The Moon is covered in lunar swirls — magnetic anomalies that could act as natural shields from dangerous cosmic radiation.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

This scientist from Oregon State University believes the professor who claims to have evidence of insects on Mars was just an example of pareidolia.
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

A doctoral candidate has a unique idea for how to colonize Mars: send bacteria to digest the soil and churn out useable raw materials for future settlers.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski