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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been shooting lasers at Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon to hit a tiny target.

NASA Spacecraft Shoots Japanese Moon Lander With Laser

By Victor Tangermann

A new study found that we could use metals found on Mars to create particles that would trap heat once released into the planet's atmosphere.

Scientists Propose Low Cost Plan for Terraforming Mars

By Frank Landymore

Robert Zubrin, president and founder of Mars Society, thinks NASA should skip its Moon missions and use Starship to go to Mars — now.

Mars Society President Calls for Starship Mission to Red Planet

By Frank Landymore

Space tech company Honeybee Robotics has come up with a concept for a 330-foot pole that could act like a streetlight for a Moon base.

DARPA Funding Plan to Build Huge Streetlight on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

To combat growing extinction threats, scientists are proposing an out-of-this-world concept — keeping at-risk cells on the Moon.

Scientists Propose Fortress of Earth’s DNA Samples Housed on the Moon in Case of Apocalypse

By Noor Al-Sibai

The rocket designed to carry the first humans to the Moon in over half a century has officially made its way to NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

NASA Rocket for First Crewed Moon Mission Since Apollo Arrives at Launch Site

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Rover has found a rock on Mars that scientists believe may contain signs of ancient life on the Red Planet.

NASA Says Its Rover Has Discovered a “Potential Biosignature” on Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Even though it's already built, NASA is not sending its VIPER rover to the Moon. Instead, it will be replaced by a "mass simulator."

NASA Scrapping Finished $450 Million Moon Rover, Will Send Dead Weight “Simulator” to Moon in Its Place

By Frank Landymore

NASA's cancellation of the VIPER Moon rover mission has spurred scientists to demand Congress to reverse the agency's decision.

Scientists Outraged at Canceled NASA Moon Mission Plead Congress to Reconsider

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have discovered traces of water while poring over lunar soil samples collected by China's Chang'e-5 rover.

China Detects Water in Samples It Collected From the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Anca Selariu, a microbiologist who lived in the NASA Mars habitat for over a year, found her time inside "absolutely exhilarating."

Crew Who Spent a Year in Simulated NASA Mars Base Say They Spent a Lot of Time Watching TV

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will no longer go to the Moon, and will most likely be scrapped for parts.

NASA Abandons Moon Rover After Spending Half a Billion Dollars on It

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover crushed a rock while exploring — and revealed a treasure of glinting, yellow crystals.

NASA Scientists Startled When Mars Rover Drives Over Rock, Cracking It and Revealing Glinting Crystals Within

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have come up with the "first direct evidence of an accessible lava tube under the surface of the Moon."

Scientists Detect Huge Caverns Under Surface of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's grand plan for Mars colonization includes, apparently, a long-term dream to create new species on the Red Planet.

Elon Musk Planning to Bioengineer New Species to Live on Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk volunteered his sperm to seed a Martian colony, the New York Times reports, highlighting his obsession with the plan.

Elon Musk Reportedly Offered SpaceX Employees Sperm to Seed Mars Colony

By Victor Tangermann

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers determined that an exoplanet could potentially harbor an Earth-like atmosphere.

James Webb Spots Habitable, Icy Exoplanet Relatively Close to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

In a spiteful retort earlier this week, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the agency was willing to work with China to examine Moon rocks.

The Head of NASA Is Being Awfully Catty About China’s Amazing New Moon Samples

By Victor Tangermann

After boldly going to the Moon's far side, China is now in possession of more than four pounds of lunar samples.

China Cracks Open First Ever Sample From Moon’s Far Side

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists in China claim to have discovered a kind of desert moss plant that could survive on the surface of Mars.

Scientists Identify Plant That Could Grow on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The US enacted a law in 2011 that forbids NASA from cooperating with China, which means it may not be able to study the latest Moon rocks.

There’s an Extremely Stupid Reason NASA Scientists Can’t Study China’s Amazing New Moon Rocks

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese scientists have made an unusual discovery while analyzing the sample Chang'e-5 collected from the Moon's surface in December 2020.

China Finds Something Strange in Sample Retrieved From Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe has officially returned the first samples collected from the far side of the Moon.

Chinese Spacecraft Lands on Earth With First Samples in Human History from Far Side of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

One stone in particular is distinctly lighter colored than all the stones surrounding it, a Mars discovery that is "in a league of its own."

NASA Rover Discovers Strange Stones, Never Before Seen on Mars

By Frank Landymore

We regret to inform you that another, significantly larger penis drawing has hit the terrain maps of Mars after a full two decades.

NASA Has Drawn Another Giant Schlong on the Surface of Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

After promising they'd get free space flights, the billionaire behind the dearMoon space tour has completely let down his crew.

Billionaire Promised Crew Free Flights Around Moon, Then Dashed Their Dreams

By Noor Al-Sibai

An ESA scientific instrument dropped off by China's lunar lander detected negative ions on the far side of the Moon.

Chinese Lander Instrument Detects Negative Ions on Far Side of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China's Chang'e-6 rover planted a flag on the Moon's far side, a victory lap for the country's highly successful lunar program.

China Plants First-Ever National Flag on Far Side of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China has just successfully scored its latest forte in the space race after landing on the Moon's dark side for the second time.

China Lands on Dark Side of the Moon, Prepares to Gather Loot and Return to Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has canceled his flagship space tourism flight, citing readiness problems with SpaceX's Starship rocket.

Billionaire Cancels Moon Tourism Trip After SpaceX Misses Deadline

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has discovered another intriguing formation on the planet's barren surface in the form of a circular pit.

Scientists Intrigued By Almost Perfectly Circular Pit on the Surface of Mars

By Frank Landymore

A new theory suggests that rockets blast up plumes of Moon dust at way, way faster speeds than previously thought.

Scientist Terrified Astronauts Might Be Shredded by Sandblasts on the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA scientists believe that a small asteroid in the Main Asteroid Belt called "Dinky" birthed its own Moon. Actually, two of them.

Astronomers Surprised After Finding Tiny Moon Is Actually Two Tiny Moons in a Trenchcoat

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

From these observations, the scientists suggest that Phobos is actually a comet that Mars' gravitational field captured in the distance past.

Mars’ Moon May Not Be What We Think, Scientists Claim

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made up its mind and will continue down a rocky ridge that scientists believe was once a raging river.

NASA Mars Rover Following Path of What Appears to Be Ancient River

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Orion capsule took a beating during its trip to the Moon and back, according to a recent report by the Office of Inspector General.

NASA Inspector Alarmed by Extensive Damage to Heatshield of Astronaut Moon Vehicle

By Victor Tangermann

Images show what appear to be a small rover attached to China's Chang'e-6 sample return mission on the far side of the Moon.

Chinese Moon Lander Appears to Be Carrying Secret Lunar Rover

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is sensitive enough to tell the weather on an exoplanet from 280 light-years away.

James Webb Detects Weather on Exoplanet From 280 Light Years Away

By Victor Tangermann

China launched a probe for the Moon's mysterious dark side and hopes to collect rocks and samples to bring back to Earth.

China Launches Spacecraft to Collect First-Ever Samples From Moon’s Dark Side

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have come up with a surprising new way for astronauts to stay in shape on the surface of the Moon: a "lunar Wall of Death."

Scientists Propose Building “Wall of Death” on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered rocky material that's riddled with manganese, a potential sign of ancient life.

Mars Loaded With Mineral Closely Associated With Life, NASA Rover Finds

By Victor Tangermann

As the Sun reaches solar maximum, NASA scientists hope to see just how much havoc a massive solar storm will wreak on the surface of Mars.

NASA Watching as Sun Blasts Mars to See Effect on Astronauts

By Frank Landymore

China has shown off a CGI video of its vision of an international lunar base, which features a NASA Space Shuttle for some reason.

China Releases CGI Video of Moon Base and It Contains Something Very Strange

By Victor Tangermann

Renders show off both Blue Origin's proposed cargo lunar lander as well as SpaceX's Starship slowly lowering a Moon rover to the surface.

NASA Releases New Render of SpaceX’s Starship Landed on the Moon’s Surface

By Victor Tangermann

Twenty years ago, NASA's Spirit rover drew a dick in Martian dust — a perfect moment in mankind's interstellar history.

A Random Reminder That NASA Drew a Big Ol’ Dick on the Surface of Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has spotted mysterious "spiders" roaming the Red Planet's southern polar region.

Orbiter Spots “Spiders” on Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Japan's SLIM Moon lander has sent back yet another image three months after it landed upside down on the lunar surface.

Japan’s Moon Lander Keeps Waking Up After It Was Supposed to Die

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released stunning new artist impressions of an extremely reflective lava lake on the surface of Jupiter's moon Io.

NASA Releases Incredible Video of Reflective Lava Lake on Jupiter’s Hellish Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover came across mysterious puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day.

NASA Ponders Why Gas Produced by Life Is Leaking Out of Mars at Night

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers believes asteroid Kamo'oalewa was once a part of the Moon and blew off, forming a crater on the far side of the Moon.

Scientists Say Something Seems to Have Broken Off the Moon at This Crater

By Victor Tangermann

Experts Suggest Using SpaceX’s Starship to Rescue Stranded Samples on Surface of Mars

Experts Suggest Using SpaceX’s Starship to Rescue Stranded Samples on Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of the SETI Institute said the American government does not have compelling evidence of alien technology.

The Head of the SETI Institute Says He’s Seen Zero Evidence of Alien Technology

By Sharon Adarlo

On Mars, a little helicopter from another world bedded down for its final mission on Tuesday: to become a silent sentry on the Red Planet.

Dying Mars Helicopter Sends NASA Final Transmission

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists seem to have figured out why the Moon is made up of such weird heavy rocks — because, as they claim, it turned itself inside out.

The Moon Turned Itself Inside Out, Scientists Confirm

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA is quietly teaching a robot dog how to walk on the Moon. Researchers just let one loose on the side of a mountain in Oregon.

NASA Quietly Training Robot Dog to Navigate Landscape of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee told a high school audience on Monday that the Moon was a "planet" that is "made up of mostly gases."

Congresswoman Makes Strange Claims About the Earth’s Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance rover is on Mars, it had been able to capture Mars’ two moons — Deimos and Phobos — float past in front of the Sun.

Here’s What NASA’s Rovers See During an Eclipse on Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

In a presentation to SpaceX workers at the Starbase facility, Elon Musk highlighted Starship's instrumental role in sustaining humans on Mars.

Elon Musk Delivers Speech About Mars Settlement Plan

By Frank Landymore

The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), otherwise known as Danuri, photobomed NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

NASA Spots Object Speeding Around the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The White House released a new memorandum in an attempt to establish a new time standard for the Moon called "Coordinated Lunar Time."

Biden Directs NASA to Figure Out What Time It Is on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Martin Rees, respected British astrophysicist, says Elon Musk's colonization plans for Mars is a "dangerous illusion."

Top Astronomer Warns That Elon Musk’s Mars Plans Are a Dangerous Delusion

By Sharon Adarlo

Boulders that were released after NASA's DART spacecraft collided with asteroid Dimorphos could eventually smash into Mars.

Debris From NASA Smashing Asteroid Could Strike Mars, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

The first astronauts to walk the surface of the Moon in almost 50 years will bring a greenhouse to study how crops adapt to the environment.

NASA’s First Artemis Moon Astronauts Will Bring Small Greenhouse to Lunar Surface

By Victor Tangermann

The snake robot, dubbed Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS), will one day plunge into the subsurface oceans of Enceladus.

NASA Testing Snake Robot for Exploring Saturn’s Moon

By Frank Landymore