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Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship suffered another explosion on Wednesday, which has cast doubt on whether these ships can ever reach Mars.

Latest Starship Explosion Drastically Decreases SpaceX’s Chances of Reaching Mars Without Having to Wait Years

By Sharon Adarlo

Over half a century ago, Apollo astronauts encountered something surprising littering the desolate lunar surface: tiny orange beads.

Scientists Investigating Small Orange Objects Coating Surface of the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Terraforming Mars could be as easy as one, two, three, we proclaim, reclined in our cushy very-much-on-Earth armchairs.

Scientists Reveal Easy Three-Step Plan to Terraform Mars

By Frank Landymore

Scientists Say There’s Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon’s Craters

Scientists Say There’s Over a Trillion Dollars of Platinum Waiting to Be Extracted From the Moon’s Craters

By Victor Tangermann

The founder of the Mars Society has accused SpaceX CEO Elon Musk of derailing existing plans to explore and visit the Red Planet.

Elon Musk’s “Hubris and Arrogance” Are Ruining Our Chances of Actually Getting to Mars, Says Leading Expert

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that the thick and hazy atmosphere enveloping Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves in a very peculiar way.

Scientists Puzzled by Mysterious Motion in Atmosphere of Saturn’s Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Planetary scientists concluded that dark streaks spotted on the surface of Mars didn't have anything to do with flowing water.

Scientists Thought They Had Spotted Flowing Water on Mars. It Turned Out to Be Something Else Entirely.

By Victor Tangermann

When looking for alien life, scientists found something odd — two bizarre pulses coming from a distant constellation.

Alien Hunters Detect “Unexplained Pulses” Emanating From Two Distant Stars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers, for the first time ever, have witnessed visible auroras over Mars — and it dwarfs anything we see on Earth.

Astronomers Stunned as Epic Mars Aurora Covers Entire Planet

By Frank Landymore

NASA has revealed that it's considering reprioritizing its goals to accelerate Elon Musk’s push to send humans to Mars.

NASA Eyes 2026 Mars Launch as Musk Pushes to Skip the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The Trump has called on NASA to cancel its "grossly expensive and delayed" Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule after Artemis 3.

White House Announces Plans to Rip Up NASA’s Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

If he had to choose between the Moon or Mars, incoming NASA administrator Jared Isaacman picked the Moon, against Elon Musk's wishes.

Incoming NASA Administrator Throws Elon Musk’s Mars Plans Under the Bus

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have found the most compelling evidence to date of alien life — and apparently, the discovery was positively shocking.

Scientist Says Sign of “Teeming” Alien Life Caused Him “Shock”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Using the Webb telescope, scientists have discovered the strongest signs of alien life to date — but NASA has nothing to say about it.

NASA Has No Comment on New Signs of Alien Life

By Noor Al-Sibai

Incoming NASA head and SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman wants to return astronauts to the Moon, defying Elon Musk's desire to skip it.

Incoming Head of NASA Defies Elon Musk on Order to Abandon Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

A British startup called Pulsar Fusion has come up with a wild new concept for a nuclear fusion-powered space rocket.

Startup Says Its Nuclear Fusion Rocket Could Cut Time to Mars in Half

By Victor Tangermann

The permanently shadowed regions of the Earth's Moon could shelter microbial lifeforms, according to new research.

Scientists Say There May Be Life on the Moon

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a bizarrely textured rock covered in hundreds of egg-like spheres on Mars, astonishing scientists.

Scientists Puzzled When Mars Rover Finds Egg-Like Rock

By Frank Landymore

Scientists found that substances found in Martian dust could be life-threatening to human space travelers, greatly imperiling their health.

Elon Musk’s Mars Colonization Plans Foiled by Pesky Foe

By Victor Tangermann

Amid Donald Trump and Elon Musk's push to eradicate the woke mind virus, NASA has removed language about its non-white men astronauts.

NASA Drops Promise to Land “First Woman, Person of Color” on the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found new evidence for a massive subsurface ocean on Mars, again raising the possibility of microbial life.

Readings Show Evidence of Huge Ocean Under Mars’ Surface

By Victor Tangermann

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is wasting no time and is already drilling into the dusty regolith to study the Moon's geology.

Lunar Lander Starts Drilling Into the Moon, Sparks Flying

By Victor Tangermann

In spite of Elon Musk agitating for it, president Donald Trump isn't interested in making a crewed mission to Mars his "number one" priority.

Trump Throws Elon Musk’s Mars Mission Under the Bus

By Victor Tangermann

In an effort to send Earth's best to the Moon, the private space company Intuitive Machines succeeded in some ways — and failed in others.

Humankind Has Infected the Moon With Imagine Dragons

By Noor Al-Sibai

The discovery of pale, loose rocks on the Martian surface could suggest that Mars was once a much warmer world.

Scientists Just Scanned Pale Rocks on Mars That May Have Huge Implications

By Frank Landymore

Firefly Aerospace has shared footage of showing its NASA-sponsored lunar lander, Blue Moon, softly touching down on the surface of the Moon.

Amazing Video Shows Spacecraft Touching Down on Surface of Moon

By Frank Landymore

Intuitive Machines' Athena lunar lander approached its final landing spot on the Moon early Thursday morning. But it's fate remains unclear.

There’s Some Serious Drama on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Texas-based space company Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has successfully landed on the Moon, and has sent back photos.

American Spacecraft Touches Down on Moon, Sends Back Photos

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Europa Clipper is about to use Mars' gravitational pull to slingshot itself towards Jupiter's fourth-largest moon later this week.

NASA Spacecraft Whipping Around Mars to Slingshot Itself Toward Jupiter’s Mysterious Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Houston-based startup Intuitive Machines' lander, dubbed Athena, is equipped with various scientific instruments, including a drill.

Robot With Large Drill Headed for Surface of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China's Zhurong Mars rover has made a fascinating discovery: "vacation-style" beaches on the shore of an ancient ocean.

Rover Discovers Evidence of Giant Ocean on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's plans to return to the Moon are seemingly on very thin ice. Key senior officials are departing and enthusiasm for Mars is growing.

It Kinda Sounds Like NASA Is Gutting Its Plans for a Moon Landing

By Victor Tangermann

Unfortunate Exoplanet Being Dragged by Star at Unfathomable Speed

Unfortunate Exoplanet Being Dragged by Star at Unfathomable Speed

By Frank Landymore

Aerospace giant Boeing is warning that hundreds of workers currently working on NASA's Artemis Moon rocket could be laid off.

As Elon Musk Reviews Moon Program, Boeing Warns Workers Building Artemis Rocket of Mass Layoffs

By Victor Tangermann

Congress is none too pleased after Elon Musk declared that "the Moon is a distraction" and that NASA should be going "straight to Mars."

Congress Alarmed at Elon Musk’s Plan to Cancel NASA Moon Landing

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk is calling for NASA to ditch its Moon program, arguing that the "Moon is a distraction" and that "we're going straight to Mars.

Elon Musk Trying to Scrap NASA’s Moon Program

By Victor Tangermann

Mixing Martian regolith with the literal blood, sweat, and tears of future Mars inhabitants could make for a great concrete for a habitat.

Scientists Suggest Harvesting Blood From Mars Colonists to Construct Future City

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has shown off an early rendering of an enormous Mars Chopper concept, a follow-up to the space agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter.

NASA Shows Off SUV-Sized “Mars Chopper” With Six Rotor Blades

By Victor Tangermann

The space agency's outgoing administrator Bill Nelson announced today that the upcoming crewed Artemis missions will be delayed again.

NASA’s Moon Landing Gets Pushed Back Yet Again

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars.

Elon Musk’s Plans for a City on Mars Will Likely End in Horrifying Mass Death

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars

NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars

By Frank Landymore

The Earth has parted ways with a tiny "mini moon" that's been orbiting our planet for two months now.

Earth’s Second Moon Has Vanished, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't think very highly of multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk's desperate desire to deliver humanity to Mars.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Slams Elon Musk’s Plans for Mars Colonization

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest that the reason why we have yet to find aliens could be that they're hiding in a parallel universe.

Scientists Say Aliens May Be Hiding in the Multiverse

By Victor Tangermann

Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes that humans may have unintentionally killed life on Mars in the 1970s.

Scientist Says NASA Lander May Have Accidentally Killed Life on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Former military officials have once again claimed that the United States possesses recovered alien technology.

Former Military Officials Tell Congress America Has Secretly Recovered Alien Technology

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's plagued Space Launch System rocket, which is being developed to deliver the first astronauts to the Moon, is on thin ice.

It Sounds Like NASA’s Moon Rocket Might Be Getting Canceled

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Orion spacecraft chipped after reentering the Earth's atmosphere during its maiden voyage. The agency remains tight lipped about it.

NASA Keeping Issue With Moon Rocket a Secret

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos once gave a cryptic missive to a power broker about wanting to go to Mars — and that power broker wouldn't share his reasoning.

Jeff Bezos Reportedly Has Secretive “Personal Reasons” for Wanting to Escape to Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a new study, NASA researchers are suggesting something radical: that Mars may be hosting life within its ice.

Life on Mars May be Trapped Under Ice, NASA Researchers Suggest

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers say they've developed a technique to detect smaller bandwidth radio signals that weren't intended to reach deep space.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out a Way to Intercept Alien Radio Signals

By Frank Landymore

NASA contractor Axiom Space has shown off the latest design of its spacesuit designed to protect astronauts on the lunar surface.

NASA Contractor Shows Off New Spacesuit for the First Moon Landing in Over Half a Century

By Victor Tangermann

Europa Clipper, the NASA mission to explore Jupiter's fourth largest moon for signs of habitability, launched on Monday.

NASA and SpaceX Launch Mission to Potentially Habitable Moon

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have long proposed nuclear rockets to get to Mars fast — but one is warning that making it happen will be an uphill battle.

There’s a Big Problem With Using Nuclear Rockets to Get to Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

In its effort to compete with SpaceX, China has launched the first internet satellites in own constellation — and astronomers are irked.

China Joins SpaceX in Ruining Astronomy for Everybody

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA researchers believe that a layer of molten goo, which shifts and moves like ocean tides, sits between the Moon's mantle and core.

Something Massive Is Shifting Deep Inside the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA is planning on growing habitable structures out of fungus — also called mycotecture — for space colonies on the Moon and then Mars.

NASA Wants to Grow Trippy Houses Made Out of Mushrooms on the Moon

By Sharon Adarlo

Elon Musk's plans to fly to Mars grow more ambitious every year — but it's unclear whether he'll live long enough to actually see it happen.

Elon Musk Might Die of Old Age Before He Can Make It to Mars, Expert Suggests

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists suggests astronauts could make use of an unusual source of nutrition during journeys into deep space: asteroids.

Astronauts Should Eat Space Rocks on the Way to Mars, Scientists Propose

By Victor Tangermann

Using readings from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected chemicals on the surface of Charon, Pluto's largest moon.

The James Webb Telescope Just Made a Fascinating Discovery About Pluto’s Huge Icy Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Something strange happened when the Earth was gripped by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020: the Moon got substantially colder.

COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Moon, Scientists Claim

By Victor Tangermann

China's Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has shown off a spacesuit designed to be worn by astronauts on the surface of the Moon.

China Unveils Spacesuit for Upcoming Moon Landing

By Victor Tangermann

The vast majority of Mars' atmosphere might be trapped in sedimentary rocks lining the Red Planet's surface, which could be used for fuel.

Mars’ Surface Appears to Be Covered in Potential Rocket Fuel, MIT Finds

By Victor Tangermann

The harsh terrain of the Martian surface has done an absolute number on NASA's Curiosity rover's wheels, as a new picture shows.

The Curiosity Mars Rover’s Wheel Looks Absolutely Wrecked

By Victor Tangermann