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The Moon Definitely Has Water Ice on Its Surface, Says NASA

The Moon Definitely Has Water Ice on Its Surface, Says NASA

By Kristin Houser

China just announced new details for its Chang'e-4 lunar mission, including plans to study's the Moon's most ancient rocks for clues into its history.

China Will Send Two Robots to Study the Moon

By Kristin Houser

Why Live on Earth When You Can Live in a Hole on Mars? No, Really.

Why Live on Earth When You Can Live in a Hole on Mars? No, Really.

By Kristin Houser

A new NASA-funded study drawing on 20 years of research says we simply can't terraform Mars using technology available today.

Scientists Say We Can’t Terraform Mars. Elon Musk Says We Can.

By Kristin Houser

On Tuesday July 31, Mars will come closer to Earth than it will for another 269 years. Take a look now before it moves on.

Stop And Look Up: Mars Is Super Close To Earth Right Now

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has selected five final designs for its 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge. Someday, we might use them construct our dwellings when we live on Mars.

Here Are The Finalists For NASA’s Mars Habitat Design Competition

By Victor Tangermann

The TSA's Quiet Skies program instructs teams of armed air marshals to track U.S. citizens through airports and aboard domestic flights.

For TSA’s “Quiet Skies” Program, Air Marshals Followed Travelers’ Every Move

By Kristin Houser

There’s A Huge Subterranean Lake of Liquid Water on Mars

There’s A Huge Subterranean Lake of Liquid Water on Mars

By Kristin Houser

we have only studied about 16 percent of the moon rocks taken during the Apollo missions. NASA's Apollo curator keeps them for future generations.

Most Of NASA’s Moon Rocks Remain Untouched By Scientists

By Dan Robitzski

we may see manned missions to the moon. Science, politics, and celestial cash grabs are at the forefront of why people want to go back.

3 Reasons Why We Might Return to The Moon

By Dan Robitzski

The Digest: The First Privately-Funded Unmanned Spacecraft Might Land on the Moon in February

The Digest: The First Privately-Funded Unmanned Spacecraft Might Land on the Moon in February

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: Blue Origin Plans to Begin Colonizing the Moon No Later Than 2023

The Digest: Blue Origin Plans to Begin Colonizing the Moon No Later Than 2023

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: 20 Mice Are Going to Space To Help Us Figure out How to Survive on Mars

The Digest: 20 Mice Are Going to Space To Help Us Figure out How to Survive on Mars

By Kristin Houser

The Scientist Who Reevaluated The Drake Equation Still Thinks Alien Life is Out There

The Scientist Who Reevaluated The Drake Equation Still Thinks Alien Life is Out There

By Dan Robitzski

The Digest: One of Saturn’s Moons Has Everything Needed to Host Life

The Digest: One of Saturn’s Moons Has Everything Needed to Host Life

By Kristin Houser

Want to Breathe on Mars? A Sea-Dwelling Bacteria Could Make That Possible.

Want to Breathe on Mars? A Sea-Dwelling Bacteria Could Make That Possible.

By Kristin Houser

NASA Found Evidence of Organic Matter on Mars. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.

NASA Found Evidence of Organic Matter on Mars. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.

By Kristin Houser

Our Bodies Aren’t Built to Have Babies on Mars – So Let’s Alter our DNA

Our Bodies Aren’t Built to Have Babies on Mars – So Let’s Alter our DNA

By Kristin Houser

Here’s What We Know About The Robots That Might Build Our First Homes on the Moon

Here’s What We Know About The Robots That Might Build Our First Homes on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A Beautiful, 20-Year Old “New” Discovery: Jupiter Moon’s Massive Liquid Plumes

A Beautiful, 20-Year Old “New” Discovery: Jupiter Moon’s Massive Liquid Plumes

NASA Just Unveiled This Awesome, Tiny Helicopter That Will Cruise Over Mars

NASA Just Unveiled This Awesome, Tiny Helicopter That Will Cruise Over Mars

By Dan Robitzski

A New Mars Lander Just Took Off for the Red Planet (updated)

A New Mars Lander Just Took Off for the Red Planet (updated)

By Claudia Geib

NASA Just Canceled Its Only Moon Rover Project. That’s Bad News for Trump’s Lunar Plans.

NASA Just Canceled Its Only Moon Rover Project. That’s Bad News for Trump’s Lunar Plans.

By Claudia Geib

SpaceX Just Launched NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope (Gee I Wonder What They’ll Find)

SpaceX Just Launched NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Telescope (Gee I Wonder What They’ll Find)

By Claudia Geib

Lights Out: DARKNESS Camera Filters Starlight to Spot Planets

Lights Out: DARKNESS Camera Filters Starlight to Spot Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Go On A 4K Joyride Around The Moon, Courtesy of NASA

Go On A 4K Joyride Around The Moon, Courtesy of NASA

By Victor Tangermann

We Can Grow Vegetables in Antarctica. Next Stop: Mars

We Can Grow Vegetables in Antarctica. Next Stop: Mars

By Claudia Geib

To Understand The Atmospheres Of Distant Exoplanets, Look To Your Car Engine

To Understand The Atmospheres Of Distant Exoplanets, Look To Your Car Engine

By Claudia Geib

New NASA Plan for Mars Is Moderately-Terrifying-Sounding, Also, Completely-Awesome: Robotic. Bees.

By Victor Tangermann

Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Humans Will Never Colonize Mars

Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Humans Will Never Colonize Mars

By Jolene Creighton

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Putin Plans to Put Russians on Mars in 2019

By Alexandra Ossola

Now Anyone Can Hunt For Exoplanets

Now Anyone Can Hunt For Exoplanets

By Chelsea Gohd

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Here’s What Alien Life on Saturn’s Moon May Look Like

By Chelsea Gohd

The Marshall Islands Is Most Recent Nation to Make Crypto an Official Currency

The Marshall Islands Is Most Recent Nation to Make Crypto an Official Currency

By Kristin Houser

Moon's mobile network

The Moon Will Soon Have Its Own Mobile Network

By Alexandra Ossola

Life Exists in the Driest Desert on Earth. It Could Exist on Mars, Too.

Life Exists in the Driest Desert on Earth. It Could Exist on Mars, Too.

By Chelsea Gohd

New Study Challenges Previous Conclusions About Water on the Moon

New Study Challenges Previous Conclusions About Water on the Moon

By Chelsea Gohd

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Why Are We Going to the Moon, Again? Oh Right, to Make It a “Gas Station for Outer Space”

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As SpaceX and Boeing Jockey to Land on Mars, Other Companies Eye Lunar Exploration

By Chelsea Gohd

Trump Just Signed a Directive to Send US Astronauts to the Moon

Trump Just Signed a Directive to Send US Astronauts to the Moon

By Patrick Caughill

How Will Humans React If We Discover Alien Life? This New Study Just Found Out (and Surprised Us)

How Will Humans React If We Discover Alien Life? This New Study Just Found Out (and Surprised Us)

India’s First-Ever Moon Mission to Launch in 2018

India’s First-Ever Moon Mission to Launch in 2018

By Chelsea Gohd

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Want to Fly People to the Moon? Become a Commercial Astronaut.

By Claudia Geib

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NASA’s “Cheap” Alternative for Reaching Mars? Atomic Rockets.

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The Kepler Mission Has Discovered Nearly 100 New Exoplanets

By Chelsea Gohd

cryptocurrency mining seti aliens

Mining Crypto Takes So Much Bandwidth, It’s Inhibiting the Search for Alien Life

By Claudia Geib

The Falcon Heavy Just Launched Successfully. Next Stop, Mars.

nasa mars insight mission

We’ve Seen Less Than One Percent of Mars. NASA’s New Lander Is Going To Change That.

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Four Chinese Students Spent 200 Days Pretending to Live on the Moon

By Chelsea Gohd

The Atmospheres of Distant Planets Guide Scientists in the Search for Alien Life

Bill Nye: “I Predict No One Is Going To Want To Settle on Mars”

Bill Nye: “I Predict No One Is Going To Want To Settle on Mars”

By Alexandra Ossola

You’re Not Crazy if You Believe in UFOs. Let’s Discuss in Scientific Terms.

You’re Not Crazy if You Believe in UFOs. Let’s Discuss in Scientific Terms.

By Alexandra Ossola

exposed water ice

Researchers Identify Eight Sites With Exposed Water Ice on Mars

Chang'e 4 Mission

China Is Sending Plants and Insects to the Moon in 2018

By Chelsea Gohd

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Is SpaceX Sending a Tesla Roadster to Mars? We’ll Believe It When We See It.

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After the Moon and Mars, NASA Wants to Head to Alpha Centauri in 2069

Astronomers Are Gearing Up to Listen for Evidence of Aliens from a Mysterious Interstellar Object

Astronomers Are Gearing Up to Listen for Evidence of Aliens from a Mysterious Interstellar Object

By Patrick Caughill

Super Earth planets could host alien life.

A Second Super Earth Spotted 111 Light-Years Away

By Chelsea Gohd

Boeing Believes It Can Beat SpaceX to Mars

Boeing Believes It Can Beat SpaceX to Mars

By Aylin Woodward

This Discovery Could Change the Way We Search for Alien Life

This Discovery Could Change the Way We Search for Alien Life

By Chelsea Gohd

Elon Musk Loves the Idea of His Tesla Roadster Being the Falcon Heavy’s First Mars Payload

Elon Musk Loves the Idea of His Tesla Roadster Being the Falcon Heavy’s First Mars Payload

By Chelsea Gohd

Alien life could be on this grey moon of Saturn.

A Russian Billionaire, Not NASA, May Uncover Alien Life

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The First-Ever Interstellar Asteroid Is the Start of a New Era in Astronomy

Elon Musk: SpaceX’s “BFR” Rocket Will Do More Than Take Us to Mars

Elon Musk: SpaceX’s “BFR” Rocket Will Do More Than Take Us to Mars