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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.

Jeff Bezos’ Moon Lander Design Just Got a Big Downgrade

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.

NASA Is Making Huge Progress on Crewed Moon Capsule

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Aliens May Already Know We Exist, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

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

Scientists Find Evidence Mars Was Covered in Rivers

By Sharon Adarlo

A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of Mars

A Radioactive Sea of Magma Hides Under the Surface of 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.

NASA Surprised by What It Found Studying Ancient Moon Crystal

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.

NASA Spacecraft Snaps Beautiful Photo of Jupiter’s Volcano-Dotted 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.

India Announces Plan to Send Astronauts to the 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.

Scientists Puzzled by Sudden, Super-Loud Rumble Inside 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.

Amazing Video Soars Over Mars’ Epic “Labyrinth of Night”

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.

NASA’s Mars Rover Spots Super-Tall Dust Devil

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.

China Salty About India’s Successful Moon Landing

By Victor Tangermann

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

Chinese Scientists Ponder Moon Base Inside Ancient Lunar Lava Tube

By Victor Tangermann

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

India’s Moon Lander Appears to Have Died

By Victor Tangermann

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

Experts Say NASA’s Mars Sample Return Plan Is Deeply Flawed

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."

NASA Wants to Send Humanoid Robots to Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

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

Japanese Moon Mission Carrying Weird Rolling Robot

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.

Site of Moon Landing Became Source of Moon Quakes, Scientists Find

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.

Bill Gates Says Elon Musk’s Reasoning on Mars and Electric Cars Is Flawed

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.

Japan Launches Mission to the 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.

India’s Moon Lander Just Took Off Again and Landed in a Different Place

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.

India’s Moon Rover Has Gone to Sleep

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.

NASA Orbiter Spots Wreckage Where Russia Crashed Into 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.

Russia Says It’s Actually Good That Its Lander Crashed Into the Moon and Blew Up

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.

Guy Complains Images From Video Game Look Bad, But They’re Real NASA Photos of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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

Hellish! Indian Rover Detects Sulfur at Moon’s South Pole

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.

India Prevents Moon Rover From Falling Into Hole

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.

India Releases First Ever Rover on Moon’s South Pole

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.

India Just Became the Fourth Ever Country to Land on the Moon

By Frank Landymore

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

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

Mars Frontier Outpost Could Survive With Just 22 Residents, Researchers Say

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.

Russia Sends Back Photos From Trip to 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.

Cops Say “Aliens” Attacking Amazonian Village Are Men With Jetpacks

By Sharon Adarlo

Harvard alien-hunter Avi Loeb posited that superhuman aliens could be building universes in labs and that his haters are just "jealous."

Harvard Professor Says Godlike Aliens May Be Creating Universes in Labs

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's adorable new Moon rovers are lightweight and about the size of a carry-on — and as a video shows, they can get some sweet air, too.

Watch NASA’s New Moon Rover Yeet Itself Over a Boulder

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has come across a fascinating hexagonal pattern in salt deposits that looks eerily familiar.

Scientists Intrigued by Hexagonal Pattern on Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA / Futurism

Scientists: Mars Is Spinning Faster, For, Uh, Some Reason

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS

Immortal Mars Helicopter Still Soars After Emergency Landing, Takes Photo of Its Buddy

By Noor Al-Sibai

The European Space Agency appears to be preoccupied with what goes on in astronauts' underwear — and is doing research on it, too.

Europe Worried About Nasty Crotch Situation Among Moon Astronauts

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has chosen Lockheed Martin to test a nuclear-powered rocket in space by 2027, in hopes of using the system to power Mars missions.

NASA Signs Deal for Nuclear-Powered Rocket That Will Eventually Power Mars Missions

By Frank Landymore

While NASA keeps upping its budget on its Mars mission, Americans have quietly reported that their priorities don't exactly seem to align.

A Majority of Americans Don’t Care About Mars, Want NASA to Defend Against Killer Asteroids

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new reality TV show is challenging an unlikely group of celebrities to survive on a simulated Mars habitat —and it looks unhinged.

Watch Celebrities Try to Patch Leaks in Simulated Mars Base

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered "diverse" traces of "preserved organic matter" in a Martian crater.

NASA Rover Finds Organic Molecules on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Glass and metal clouds serve as a protective mirror for a bizarre, ultra-hot exoplanet, which sits dangerously close to its home star.

Scientists Intrigued by Reflective Exoplanet With Shiny Titanium Clouds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A large, radioactive hunk of granite was discovered beneath the lunar surface, a surprising discovery that speaks to the Moon's volcanic past.

Scientists Discover Mysterious Radioactive Rock on the Far Side of the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Indian Space Research Organization has fully assembled its Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft and plans to launch on July 14.

India to Launch Third Moon Mission Next Week After Failed Landing Attempt

By Frank Landymore

After more than two months of radio silence, NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has finally phoned home. And it's healthy.

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Makes Contact After Ghosting for Over Two Months

By Noor Al-Sibai

Earlier this month, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted a mysterious donut-shaped rock. Experts are divided on what it could be.

Scientists Attempt to Explain Mars Rock With Hole Straight Through It

By Victor Tangermann

Four individuals have agreed to be locked inside NASA's Mars simulator for just over a year. And they're being paid surprisingly little.

Here’s What NASA Pays to Be Locked in a Mars Simulator for a Year

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has crushed its previous record for turning the planet's thin atmosphere into a source of oxygen.

NASA Gets Amazing New Results Generating Oxygen on Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just locked four non-astronaut volunteers in a simulated Mars habitat, marking the beginning of the much-anticipated CHAPEA missions.

NASA Locks Test Subjects Inside Simulated Mars Base

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

What a Beaut! Mars Shines in Gorgeous New UV Images

What a Beaut! Mars Shines in Gorgeous New UV Images

By Sharon Adarlo

The costs associated with NASA's ambitious Mars Sample Return mission keep growing and growing by the billions, alarming officials.

Uh Oh, the Cost of NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission Is Spiralling Out of Control

By Noor Al-Sibai

Enceladus, an icy, 300 miles-in-diameter Moon that orbits Saturn, contains all of the six major ingredients for life after all.

Scientists Extremely Intrigued to Find Ingredients for Life on Enceladus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA researchers say Moon astronauts should consider that microbial life could survive in shadowed niches near the south pole.

NASA Says There May Be Life on the Moon After All

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is getting increasingly worried that SpaceX's Starship may not be ready for the space agency's return to the lunar surface in 2025.

NASA Worried SpaceX’s Failure Will Push Back Landing on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA chief Bill Nelson has Moon water on the mind — also, specifically, the idea that China might get to that precious Moon water first.

NASA Head Worried China Will Steal America’s God-Given Moon Water

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of Saturn's weirdest moons has been captured by the James Webb Space Telescope spewing a gigantic plume of water vapor.

James Webb Catches Saturn’s Moon Squirting

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists at the SETI Institute have put together a simulated alien signal to see if we have the ability to decode it.

Earth Receiving Simulated Alien Signal From Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the impact site of Japanese company ispace's lunar lander.

NASA Says It May Have Spotted Remains of Crashed Japanese Moon Lander

By Victor Tangermann

NASA officially awarded a Blue Origin-led team a $3.4 billion contract for its upcoming Artemis V mission to the Moon.

NASA Awards Sore Loser Jeff Bezos a Consolation Prize Moon Contract

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have figured out the thickness of the Martian crust, and concluded that the planet is heating itself with radioactive elements.

Scientists Detect Radioactive Heat Source Inside Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover has found what scientists suggest could be evidence of a raging, fast-moving river that once flowed on Mars.

NASA Mars Rover Appears to Have Found Remnants of Ancient Raging River

By Victor Tangermann