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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."

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Way to Make Oxygen From Moon Dust

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.

Elon Musk Says He’ll Put A Million People on Mars By 2050

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."

20,000 Apply to Be Billionaire’s Girlfriend, Get Free Moon Trip

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.

NASA Wants to Grow a Moon Base Out of Mushrooms

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.

Here’s How NASA’s New Machine Weighs 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.

MIT: A “Dynamo” Inside the Moon Shut Down a Billion Years Ago

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.

NASA Proposed Sending Japanese Astronauts to the 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.

These Rare Exoplanets Have the “Density of Cotton Candy”

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’s Surface Could Electrocute Astronauts, Scientists Warn

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.

NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Earns Its “Driver’s License”

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.

A Former NASA Astronaut Is Building a Plasma-Powered Mars Rocket

By Dan Robitzski

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

NASA Releases “Treasure Map” for Water Ice on Mars

By Kristin Houser

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

Survey Finds That Water Is Common Around 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.

Ohio University Has Yet to Deny Professor’s ‘Bugs on Mars!’ Claim. So.

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.

NASA Suggests Giant Dust Storms Blew Mars’ Water Into Space

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.

IKEA Designed the Interior of a Mars Habitat

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.

NASA Is Sending Dummies Around the Moon to Test Cosmic Radiation

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.

Russia Wants to Build an Observatory on the 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.

India Finally Admits Its Moon Lander Crashed

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.

MIT Deepfake Shows Nixon Sadly Saying the Moon Astronauts Died

By Dan Robitzski

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

Spiral Formations on the Moon Appear to Deflect Cosmic Rays

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.

University Deletes Press Release Claiming Evidence of Bugs on Mars

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.

Unusual PhD Thesis: Let’s Use Bacteria to Colonize Mars

By Dan Robitzski

An entomologist claims rover photos show life on Mars in the form of both living and fossilized insects, but the evidence is far from convincing.

Professor Claims to Have Discovered Insect-Like Life on Mars

By Kristin Houser

New NASA research found that Neptune has two moons that are locked in a strange orbital dance in order to "maintain the peace."

NASA: Neptune’s Moons “Dance” to Avoid Smashing Into Each Other

By Kristin Houser

China has successfully launched its Tianwen-1 — Heavenly Questions — mission to Mars, including an orbiter, lander, and a rover.

China Successfully Tests Mars Lander in Giant Drop Test

By Victor Tangermann

The levels of oxygen on Mars increase and decrease over the year in a way that just doesn't make sense to scientists, a new paper reveals.

“Mind Boggling” Behavior of Oxygen on Mars Has NASA Stumped

By Kristin Houser

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks

By Kristin Houser

Geneticist Chris Mason has an unusual idea for helping future astronauts survive the trip to Mars: gene-hack them with tardigrade DNA that blocks radiation.

This Scientist Wants to Gene-Hack Hybrid Humans to Survive Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Boeing just sent NASA its proposal for a crewed lunar lander that could ferry astronauts to the Moon by 2024 via NASA's planned "Lunar Gateway."

Here’s How Boeing is Planning to Get Astronauts to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation announced the country's first ever plans to send astronauts to the surface of Mars.

China Unveils Plan to Send Astronauts to Mars

By Victor Tangermann

This startup's plan is to send swarms of smart robots to the surface of a distant moon and planets to extract resources including water ice and minerals.

Meet the Startup Building Robot Swarms to Mine Ice on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China has a new plan to send robotic vehilces to the Moon and bring back lunar samples of rocks. It'll be the first lunar retrieval mission since 1976.

China Is Going to the Moon, Coming Back With Moon Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX “Definitely” Plans to Land Starship on Moon by 2022

SpaceX “Definitely” Plans to Land Starship on Moon by 2022

By Victor Tangermann

In a distant star system, two fully-formed exoplanets crashed into each other, leaving an unusual trail of space dust and debris in their wake.

Two Exoplanets Collided, Leaving a Trail of Planetary Gore

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is working with Caterpillar on Moon mining rocks from the Moon's surface to be used as raw materials on the space agency's planned lunar base.

NASA’s Collaborating With Caterpillar on Moon Mining Machines

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency is about to test if an astronaut on board the International Space Station is capable of taking control of Moon rovers from space.

Astronauts Are About to Take Control of a Mars Rover, From Space

By Victor Tangermann

The China Lunar Exploration Program has released a new photo of the mysterious "gel-like" and "colored" substance found by its Moon rover.

China Releases New Pic of Weird Substance Its Moon Rover Found

By Victor Tangermann

One of the mockup Moon habitats NASA is considering is a 55-foot-long inflatable tent that reaches a height equivalent to a two-story building.

NASA’s Considering Giant Inflatable Tents for Moon Habitats

By Kristin Houser

Congress still isn't ready to approve a budget increase to support a 2024 crewed Moon mission — but it isn't quite ready to deny it either.

Congress Is Preparing to Kill 2024 Moon Mission

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is well aware of a potentially fatal flaw in the company's plan to use a Moon base as a refueling station.

Here’s What Worries Elon Musk About a SpaceX Moon Base

By Kristin Houser

NASA has designed two new spacesuits to support its 2024 mission to the Moon, and the suits are better than their predecessors in almost every way.

NASA Unveils Spacesuits for Next Moon Mission

By Kristin Houser

UK-based startup SpaceBit's Moon rover is not only the smallest ever, but it also has legs instead of the typical wheels.

2021 Moon Rover Will Have Legs Instead of Wheels

By Kristin Houser

Professor Lewis Dartnell, professor at the University of Westminster, has an ingenious plan as to how to build a human colony on the Moon.

Check Out This Beautiful Design for a Moon Habitat

By Victor Tangermann

The idea of colonizing exoplanets if Earth becomes uninhabitable is "completely crazy," according to Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist Michel Mayor.

Nobel-Winning Astrophysicist Says We’ll Never Colonize Exoplanets

By Kristin Houser

Former NASA scientist Gilbert Levin argues we already discovered we're not alone in the universe during NASA's Viking mission to find life on Mars in 1976.

Former NASA Scientist “Convinced” We Already Found Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists discovered 20 more tiny moons orbiting Saturn, meaning the gas giant is the new record holder within the confines of our solar system.

Astronomers Just Found 20 More Moons Around Saturn

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers found traces of organic compounds in plumes that burst from Saturn's moon Enceladus. A sign of life if all the conditions are right.

Scientists Find Building Blocks of Life on Saturn’s Icy Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China just revealed the spacecraft it wants to use to ferry astronauts to the Moon. In other words, a new Space Race is heating up.

China Reveals Spacecraft Built to Ferry Astronauts to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars InSight lander just detected some "peculiar sounds" thanks to its onboard seismometer that's capable of picking up on the tiniest of vibrations.

NASA Mars Lander Detects Creepy “Dinks and Donks” Sounds

By Victor Tangermann

Newly-shared pictures of the cotton plant China briefly grew on the Moon shows that it fared a little bit better than previously thought before freezing.

China Shares Photos of Its Doomed Moon Plant

By Dan Robitzski

Chief scientist at NASA Jim Green believes that were mere years away from finding life on Mars thanks to the next generation of future Mars rovers.

NASA’s Chief Scientist is Oddly Terrified By Finding Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A new paper argues that the “primary colonists” of Mars should be microbes like the ones which support life on Earth in order to terraform the Red Planet.

Contaminating Mars With Microbes Could Kickstart Colonization

By Natalie Coleman

If signs of alien life or civilization ever crashed into the Moon, they're likely still up there waiting to be discovered.

Harvard Prof: The Moon Could Have Caught Alien Organisms, Tech

By Dan Robitzski

To feed colonists on Mars, we'll need to find a way to produce food there — and a team of researchers thinkgs it knows the best wait to go about it.

Here’s How We Could Feed a Million People on Mars

By Kristin Houser

NASA's InSight Lander on the surface of Mars detected a series of strange magnetic pulses that occurred exactly at midnight.

NASA’s Mars Lander Detects Mysterious Magnetic Pulses

By Victor Tangermann

China's Yutu-2 lunar lander just sent back images of a strange new substance it found near a small crater on the far side of the Moon.

Here Are New Pics of That Weird Substance China Found on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

On Jupiter's moon Io, the strongest volcano in the solar system is likely about to erupt within the next couple of days, according to new calculations.

A Giant Volcano on One of Jupiter’s Moons Is About to Erupt

By Dan Robitzski

LifeShip will send your DNA to the Moon for $99 — a whimsical undertaking that could also ensure humanity lives on even if Earth becomes uninhabitable.

This Startup Will Send DNA From Your Spit to the Moon for $99

By Kristin Houser

An Indian newspaper quoted an ISRO official as saying that the country's lunar lander landed in one piece. The report has yet to be confirmed.

Indian Official: Moon Lander May Have Survived in One Piece

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are suggesting that the methane-filled lakes on the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan could have been formed by massive explosions.

Huge Explosions May Have Formed Lakes on Saturn’s Moon Titan

By Victor Tangermann

China claims its Yutu-2 lunar rover has stumbled upon an unsually colored "gel-like" substance on the bottom of an impact crater on the Moon.

China Claims Its Moon Rover Found a Colorful “Gel-Like” Substance

By Victor Tangermann

India may have lost all communication with its Vikram lunar lander after making its approach last week — but not all may be lost.

India Finds Lost Moon Lander, Tries to Establish Contact

By Victor Tangermann

On Friday afternoon, India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft will attempt to land on the Moon. If it works, India will be the fourth country to ever do so.

India Is About to Attempt a Moon Landing

By Dan Robitzski