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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

NASA just attached its new semi-autonomous helicopter drone to the rover it's sending to Mars next year. Pending a few more tests, it should be ready to go.

NASA Installs Autonomous Mini-Helicopter on Its Next Mars Rover

By Dan Robitzski

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.

SpaceX Working With NASA to Find Mars Landing Sites for Starship

By Victor Tangermann

A newly proposed type of space elevator called the Spaceline could theoretically be built out of materials that exist today, hinting at easier space travel.

These Researchers Want to Run a Cable From the Earth to the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

This Roomy, Inflatable Habitat Could One Day Take You to Mars

This Roomy, Inflatable Habitat Could One Day Take You to Mars

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested that "thousands of solar reflector satellites" could be used to warm up the surface of Mars.

Elon Musk: “Thousands of Solar Reflector Satellites” Could Warm Up Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Newt Gingrich proposed a $2 billion contest for private companies to set up a settlement on the Moon. Elon Musk wants in.

Elon Musk Wants Newt Gingrich’s $2 Billion Moon Payout

By Dan Robitzski

India's Chandrayaan 2 space probe is now orbiting around the Moon, putting it in position to attempt a landing in early September.

India’s Space Probe Is Now Orbiting the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has announced it's completing the final designs and planning for constructing and testing a spacecraft that will visit Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

NASA is Sending a Probe to Jupiter’s Icy Moon to Look for Life

By Victor Tangermann

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is proposing to award a $2 billion prize to the first private space company to land Americans on the Moon.

Newt Gingrich Proposes $2 Billion Prize to Land on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's proposal for terraforming Mars through sustained nuclear blasts would require detonating 3,500 bombs every day, with no margin for error.

Sorry, Elon: Terraforming Mars Would Take 3,500 Nukes per Day

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk tweeted "Nuke Mars!" on Thursday, likely to double down on his ill-advised dream of terraforming the Red Planet through nuclear strikes.

Elon Musk Really, Really Wants to Nuke Mars

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk estimates the cost of building a self-sustaining city on Mars to be anywhere "between $100 billion and $100 trillion."

Elon Musk: Mars City Could Cost Up to $10 Trillion

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's mobile Kilopower mobile fission nuclear power generator could be sent off to Mars by 2022, according to team members.

This Nuclear Reactor Could Be Shipped to Mars by 2022

By Victor Tangermann

While the recent tardigrade spill on the Moon is bad news, it may not be the first time the resilient little creatures made their way to the lunar surface.

Hipster Asteroids Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon Before It Was Cool

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that cosmic radiation is even more dangerous than we thought. Mice exposed to Mars-journey levels developed dementia-like symptoms.

Mars-Journey Levels of Radiation Seriously Damaged Mouse Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Israeli lunar lander Beresheet crashed onto the surface of the Moon on April 11 spilling thousands of dehydrated "water bears" or tardigrades.

Crashed Moon Lander Splattered Live Organisms Onto Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

New evidence suggests that Mars may have had a liquid ocean on its surface, and that meteor impacts caused a planet-sized tsunamis.

Ancient Meteor Strike Deluged Mars With Planet-Scale Tsunami

By Dan Robitzski

There's no short supply of aspirational, bold claims about how we'll colonize Mars. Unfortunately, none of them are realistic.

Reality Check: It Would Take Thousands Of Years To Colonize Mars

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir hopes she's the next Moonwalker — but she isn't thrilled with NASA's emphasis on putting a woman on the Moon.

Retired Astronaut: Sending a Woman to the Moon “Sounds Like a Stunt”

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk bragged that his company could reach the Moon within two years. But NASA CFO Jeff DeWit isn't buying it.

NASA Official: SpaceX’s Moon Chances Are “Slim”

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's plans to get to the Moon by 2024 are turning up the pressure to find a suitable replacement for spacesuits that date back to the 1970s.

NASA Really, Really Needs a New Spacesuit for 2024 Moon Mission

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at the University of California found that there could be way more ice water on the surface of the Moon than we initially thought.

Study: There’s Way More Water on the Moon Than We Thought

By Victor Tangermann

Unrestored tapes of the first Moon walk just sold for more than $1.8 million at auction — more than 8,000 times the price paid by their owner in 1976.

Someone Just Paid $1.8 Million for Videos of the First Moon Walk

By Kristin Houser

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

Puerto Rican Startup Plans to Launch Self-Sustaining Moon Habitat

By Dan Robitzski

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

India Successfully Launches Lunar Lander Toward The 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.

Red Wine Compound Could Keep Astronauts Strong on 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.

Elon Musk: We Could Land on the Moon In “Less Than Two Years”

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.

Scientists Spot Distant Gas Giant Still Forming New Moons

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."

India Calls Off Moon Mission One Hour Before Launch

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.

NASA Just Released an Incredible Map of All Known 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.

Our Moon Could Escape Earth’s Orbit and Become a “Ploonet”

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.

India Is Launching a Moon Mission This Weekend

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.

Russia is Planning to 3D Print a Moon Base

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.

3D-Printed Human Skin and Bone Could Save Astronauts on 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.

Bad News, Astronauts: NASA Probably Won’t Reach Moon by 2024

By Dan Robitzski

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

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

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.

NASA’s TESS Mission Has Spotted Its Smallest Exoplanet Ever

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.

Aliens on Icy Moons Could Look Like Organisms Near Seafloor Volcanoes

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.

Breaking: NASA Announces Mission to Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan

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.

Amazon’s Re:Mars AI Conference Was Like a “Cloud Computing Cult”

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.

SpaceIL Kills Second Moon Landing Attempt, Teases New “Objective”

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.

New Theory: Marsquakes Could be Caused by Frozen Groundwater

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 Had a Chance to Grow Life 4.4 Billion Years Ago, Study Shows

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.

Weird New Theory: Aliens Could Be Using Toxic Gas as Defense

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.

Study: Sperm Banks in Space Could Make Colonizing Mars Possible

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.

New NASA Rover Discovery Hints at Signs of Life on 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.

Extraterrestrial Life Could Feasibly Live in Salty Puddles on 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.

Americans Don’t Really Care About Reaching Mars, Says Poll

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.

This Bizarre Device Will Help Rescue Injured Astronauts on the 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.

NASA Funds $2M Study to See if We Could Live in Moon Pits

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.

Blue Origin Test Fires Moon Lander Engine For the First Time

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.

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has Nutrient-Rich Oceans

By Dan Robitzski

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

Scientists Find the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Ever — and It’s Nearby

By Dan Robitzski

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

Gov. Watchdog: NASA Hid True Cost of Boeing Moon Rocket

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Discovers Brand-New Crater on 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.

NASA Budget Billions Short to Return Americans to the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Orbiter Spots “Star Trek” Starfleet Insignia on 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?

Scientists Are Baffled by “Huge Mass” Under the Moon’s Surface

By Victor Tangermann