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A Puerto Rican startup called Instarz plans on building a self-assembling, self-sustaining Moon habitat that can support eight astronauts for a year.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

India successfully launched their first ever lunar lander as part of its Chandrayaan-2 mission early Monday morning local time.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A new study suggests resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, could preserve the muscle mass and strength of astonauts exposed to Mars' microgravity.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told TIME he thinks "we could land on the Moon in less than two years" — but that "we" might not include NASA.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

A team of astronomers just saw for the first time a gas giant planet actively forming new moons out of a cloud of gas and dust.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

India officially called off the launch of its first mission to the Moon on Sunday a mere hour before launch due to a "technical snag."
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just dropped an astonishing elaborate map of the over 4,003 exoplanets that we know to exist outside our Solar System.
Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that some moons may escape their host planets' orbits to become "ploonets" — and Earth's own Moon could eventually join their ranks.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

India is getting ready to launch its first-ever lunar lander mission called Chandrayaan 2 on Sunday, including an orbiter, lander, and rover.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Russia space agency Roscosmos confirmed that it's planning to 3D print structures on the moon to protect astronauts from the harsh environment by 2040.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists 3D printed skin and bone samples upside down to see if astronauts on Mars could use the technology in low-gravity environments.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

As NASA scrambles to get ready for Artemis, its upcoming crewed mission to the Moon slated for 2024, China may take the lead.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Buzz Aldrin: Stephen Hawking Said We Shouldn’t Colonize Mars Yet
Mars

By Kristin Houser

NASA's TESS mission has a new discovery: a small exoplanet named L 98-59b, the tiniest TESS has ever spotted, which NASA says could have its own atmosphere.
Exoplanets

By Natalie Coleman

Astrobiologists believe that the answer to what alien life could look like on icy moons like Saturn's moon Enceladus could lie deep on the ocean floor.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

As part of project Dragonfly, NASA is planning to send a small spacecraft to Saturn's moon Titan, a moon with an extremely dense atmosphere.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's re:MARS conference for emerging artificial intelligence technology was more of a thinly-veiled advertisement for Amazon's own goals.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Israel-based startup SpaceIL has decided that April's failed Moon mission was actually a success — and that it's time to move on to the next challenge.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

Michael Manga, a planetary scientist at the University of California at Berkeley, has a new theory as to what may be causing marsquakes.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

By analyzing the oldest known minerals from Mars, researchers think they've discovered a 700 million year period during which Martian life could've thrived.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

An MIT postdoctoral student has a strange new suggestion for finding extraterrestrial life: scan the skies for phosphine, a foul-smelling, toxic gas.
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

A new study found that frozen sperm samples survived in microgravity, suggesting reproducing in space with sperm sent from Earth could be possible.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Rover just found methane readings at a Martian site to be three times as high as the previously record level — posssibly a sign of life.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists recreated the extreme conditions of salty mud puddles on Mars in order to see whether microbial life could feasibly survive there.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Americans think monitoring asteroids and comets that could hit the Earth is way more imporant than crewed missions to Mars, according to a new poll.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

The European Space Agency just tested out a device that's meant to assist in astronaut rescue missions on the surface of the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has funded a project to develop robots capable of autonomously exploring and imaging Moon pits to determine their potential usefulness.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

Jeff Bezos-led Blue Origin just fired up its gigantic Moon lander engine for the first time at NSA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A second look at data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveals that the oceans of Saturns' moon, Eneceladus, could harbor ideal conditions for microbial life.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

A newly-discovered exoplanet called Teegarden b is more similar to Earth than any other world scientists have spotted so far.
Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski

A new report fings that NASA has been downplaying the expected costs of its missions while rewarding contractors despite preventable delays
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently spotted a brand new crater on the surface of Mars. The impact left a massive blue smudge that scientists think might be caused by exposed ice.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told CNN Business that NASA will need "$20 to $30 billion" over a span of five years to return to the Moon by 2024.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's on board HiRise high-resolution camera just spotted a dune in the shape of the "Star Trek" logo on Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The discovery of a huge mass of dense material near the Moon's South Pole is puzzling scientists across the globe. Where did it come from?
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Jupiter's moon Europa, which many scientists suspect could support extraterrestrial life, has the same kind of salt in its oceans as Earth.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has stepped up to clarify what President Donald Trump meant by his confusing Moon tweet.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

New Study: Alien Life is Probably Way Rarer Than We Thought
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is livestreaming a video feed from the JPL clean room where it's currently assembling and testing the Mars 2020 rover.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

A team of astronomers found a "large excess of mass" under the Moon's largest crater called the Aitken basin near the South Pole.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

U.S. President Donald Trump's puzzling Moon tweet instructing NASA to focus on Mars could have something to do with a Fox anchor's comments.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

NASA is planning to send its tiny Mars Helicopter to the surface of Mars next summer. And the Helicopter just passed a couple of important milestones.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Wild Idea: Use Railguns to Extract Resources From the Moon
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at the European Space Agency say that a crewed mission to Mars too dangerous to pursue because of high levels of cosmic radiation.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

In order to pay for Artemis, NASA's upcoming 2024 Moon mission, it may have to cannibalize other parts of the space agency's budget.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Several times a week, short bursts of light appear on the surface of the Moon. Scientists have only been able to guess as to why the phenomenon occurs.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The director of China's space agency told the press that scientists are currently attaching scientific instruments to its Mars rover.
Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The MOONRISE project plans to send a small laser system to the Moon in 2021, testing the device's ability to melt Moon dust into a usable building material.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

This summer, NASA astronauts will join an international diving crew in a special underwater laboratory under the Atlantic to prepare astronauts space.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars 2020 spacecraft just underwent a series of extreme tests to prepare it for the intense conditions on the Red Planet's surface. 
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA executive who was appointed only six weeks ago to lead the strategy for future missions to the Moon has resigned.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Saturday night, a mile-wide asteroid called 1999 KW4 will fly by the Earth, and when it does, it'll bring with it its very own moon.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

NASA is offering the public something truly unique: an opportunity to send thier names to the surface of Mars, "stenciled on chips."
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A new update to the city-builder video game Surviving Mars allows the player to terraform the Red Planet, turning it green.
Mars

By Natalie Coleman

As we move closer to colonizing Mars, one evolutionary biologist wonders: how will humans evolve to cope with life on the Red Planet?
Mars

By Natalie Coleman

The House Appropriations Committee slapped down the White Houses's request for additional funds for a 2024 Moon Mission by NASA.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA satellite managed to photograph the site where Beresheet, the Israeli lunar lander, crashed into the Moon last month.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's upcoming crewed mission to the surface of the Moon will be named Artemis, after the Greek goddess of the moon and sister to Apollo.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's "We Are Going" video, which is narrated by Star Trek actor William Shatner, details how the agency plans to pull off its ambitious 2024 Moon mission.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

NASA and the White House are asking Congress to add $1.6 billion to NASA's budget to enable the agency's Moon mission to meet its 2024 goal.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

NASA's Oddysey spacecraft recently captured some colorful candids of the Martian moon, Phobos. Here's what makes the snapshots so sweet.
Mars

By Jacob Banas

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to imply that Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos was building unwarranted hype for a plan that wasn't going anywhere.
Moon

By Kristin Houser

The Trump Administration wanted NASA to put an astronaut on the Moon by 2024 instead of 2028 as originally planned. So far, the new timeline isn't working.
Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Jeff Bezos' private space company Blue Origin revealed its plans to go to the Moon at a mysterious press event today, including a lunar lander design.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann