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In an extremely unfortunate twist of fate, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has landed on its nose.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Japan's Moon lander had to be shut down just three hours after touching down. There's still a small chance it can recharge its batteries.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Now that NASA is pushing back the Artemis lunar mission again, Congress is more anxious than ever that China will beat the US to the Moon.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has successfully bounced a laser off of a tiny reflector attached to India's Vikram lander.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Discover Enough Mars Ice to Cover Planet in Water
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has spotted something fascinating — a rock that seems to form the delta-shaped Starfleet logo from "Star Trek."
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s SLIM lunar lander successfully touched down but its solar panels aren't charging.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin has told US lawmakers that the space agency's plans to return humans to the Moon are terrible.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Experts quoted in a The Spectator piece about the James Webb discovering "alien life" say they've been taken out of context.
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

Astrobotic tried to make the US' triumphant return to the lunar surface. Its lander will now burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's first crewed lunar landing mission in over half a century dubbed Artemis 3 will likely be delayed due to Starship issues.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

In the most recent update, Astrobotic shared the first photo of its Peregrine Moon lander, perishing in orbit.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

As humans barrel ever closer to colonizing the Moon, the prospect of lunar mining is also becoming more real.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's first shot at launching a Moon lander in over 50 years seems almost certainly like it's not going to make it.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have been puzzling over "magic islands" on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Researchers now have an answer.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The first US lunar lander to have been sent into space in more than half a century is in serious trouble after experiencing an "anomaly."
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Juno spacecraft performed its closest every flyby of Io, capturing stunning photos of the ever-shifting surface of this volcanic world.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

NASA has responded to Navajo Nation president Buu Nygren's complaint over space contractors sending cremated human remains to the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The spacecraft Peregrine will be the first American lunar lander built by a private space company if it lands on the Moon successfully.
Moon

By Sharon Adarlo

A new image captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an up-close and stunning look at what's known as an ice flow.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

On Christmas Day last year, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft observed something entirely unexpected: the Martian magnetosphere tripled in size.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

In an exchange with another AI guru, Elon Musk was apparently left "speechless" when presented with a problem with his Mars colonization plan.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

China's Mars rover has uncovered underground polygon structures buried deep beneath the Red Planet's surface.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harvard professor Avi Loeb is headed back to Papua New Guinea to find fragments of a meteor that he thinks was actually an alien probe.
Exobiology

By Sharon Adarlo

A French startup signed a contract with the Italian Space Agency to build the "first permanent outpost on the Moon."
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A piece of Chinese space junk hit the Moon and left a weird pockmark on the surface — but there's more to this story than meets the eye.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

During a recent probe, the European Space Agency's ExoMars probe spotted the Red Planet glowing green at night.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Physics professor Kenneth Ohm has an unusual reason for having his DNA delivered to the Moon's south pole during an upcoming Celestis mission.
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to NASA's space probe Juno, astronomers finally have confirmation of salt and organic compounds in Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

Robin Witt, who helped build NASA's Artemis I rocket, was living her dream. She says that Florida's anti-trans laws cut that dream short.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blue Origin just unveiled the latest prototype for its NASA moon lander — and it's way jankier looking than the concept art made it seem. 
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has made big moves with its Orion spacecraft, which will soon undergo rigorous testing in anticipation of the Artemis II flight.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some astronomers suggest that aliens may have already spotted us, we just don't know it yet, a tantalizing theory.
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists at Pennsylvania State University have uncovered evidence that suggests Mars was a place with many flowing rivers.
Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars
Mars

By Frank Landymore

A new atomic study of an Apollo 17-era Moon crystal suggests that the Moon formed roughly 40 million years earlier than previously thought.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Juno satellite captured new images of Jupiter's moon, Io, which has a fiery surface due to its many volcanoes.
Moon

By Sharon Adarlo

After successfully launching its lunar lander, India plans to make history again by sending up its own astronauts to the Moon.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

A record shattering tremor on Mars still has scientists uncertain on its origin, after new research ruled out a meteoroid impact.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

A stunning new video put together by the European Space Agency shows the vastness of the Noctis Labyrinthus, a Martian canyon.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has spotted a super-tall dust devil on the Red Planet — and the agency has released the footage, y'all.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese scientists are questioning whether India's lunar lander actually ever made it to the area broadly defined as Moon's south pole.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese researchers are investigating the feasibility of having astronauts shelter in space inside lava tubes on the lunar surface.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

India's Vikram lunar lander has yet to "re-awaken" from its prolonged night-time nap, worrying scientists.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

An independent review board found several serious issues regarding NASA's Mars Sample Return mission's timetable, cost, and technical plans.
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA helped develop a new humanoid robot that could assist astronauts on future space missions, but they can also serve as "avatars."
Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

Japan is sending a tennis ball-shaped rover, which was inspired by children's toys, to the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The Moon quakes just like the Earth — and apparently, the addition of the Apollo 17 base more than 50 years ago made it quake a bit harder. 
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a new biography, Bill Gates became disillusioned with Elon Musk's efforts to colonize Mars and leave a doomed Earth behind.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Japan has, for the first time in its history, succesfully launched a mission to the Moon — and it's unlike any other we've seen before. 
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

After making it safely to the lunar surface last month, India's Vikram Moon lander just pulled off its next daring stunt.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

India's Chandrayaan-3 Moon mission rover and lander, Pragyaan and Vikram, are taking a well-earned nap as they await the next lunar sunrise.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has spotted the likely remains of Russia's crash-landed Luna-25 lander on the surface below.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

If the Kremlin were to be believed, there was nothing wrong with its lunar lander's demise. Officials are seeing the crash as a rallying cry.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

An impatient gamer criticized the graphics of what they expected to be in-game screenshots from "Starfield." They were real images from Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

The Indian Space Research Organization has announced that its Pragyaan lunar lander has discovered sulfur near the lunar south pole.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

India's small, six-wheeled lunar rover recently encountered an obstacle on the Moon's surface in the form of a ten-foot crater.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

India is making history in huge ways as it joins the small list of countries to go to the Moon and becomes the first on the lunar south pole.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

The historic success of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission also makes it the first nation to softly land near the Moon's south pole.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

After Russia’s Failure, India Is Preparing to Land on the Moon
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Russia’s Moon Lander Crashing Is a Catastrophe for Its Space Program
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers concluded that you only need 22 colonists to survive and successfully maintain a Mars colony.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Russian state media recently shared the first images taken by its Luna-25 spacecraft, showing the Earth as a small dot in the distance.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

People in an isolated area of Peru claim they were attacked by aliens but investigators think it's actually illegal miners using jetpacks.
Exobiology

By Sharon Adarlo