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

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.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

By Victor Tangermann

NASA / Futurism
Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS
Mars

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.
Moon

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.
Mars

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.
Mars

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.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

By Frank Landymore

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

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.
Mars

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.
Mars

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.
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.
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

What a Beaut! Mars Shines in Gorgeous New UV Images
Mars

By Sharon Adarlo

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

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.
Exobiology

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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.
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.
Moon

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.
Moon

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.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

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

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.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

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

By Victor Tangermann

Fox recently announced that it's pitting a unusual mix of celebrities against each other during a simulated stay in a Martian colony.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing out a snake-like robot that is meant to one day climb into the icy vents of Saturn's moons.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Dmitry Rogozin, the former head of Russia's space corporation Roscosmos, doesn't believe NASA landed on the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil inside a vacuum chamber.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

China's Zhurong rover, which has spent months exploring the Martian surface, may have found evidence of liquid water at low latitudes.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Landing on the Moon is hard, so scientists at the MBR Space Centre in Dubai aren't beating themselves up too hard about this failed attempt.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

China's Mars rover Zhurong has remained in its hibernation state since May 2022. Officials are finally ready to talk.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

After looking at NASA's Mars lander data, scientists say they've figured out what lies at the heart of the Red Planet's core.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

After spending the last five months making its way to the Moon, a Japanese spacecraft is about to make its first attempt to land on the lunar surface.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Japanese lunar lander Hakuto-R Mission 1, developed by ispace, lost contact with mission control during today's landing attempt.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is locking four individuals inside a 1,700-square-foot Mars habitat analog for an entire year to see if they can get along.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

NASA has turned its giant 6.2 million-gallon Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) into a replica of the surface of the Moon to train astronauts.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Ever wanted to know what the Moon smells like? According to NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin, it smells like spent gunpowder.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Three brothers who used to work at SpaceX walk into a bar and order some Moon water — stop me if you've heard this one before.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

China is planning to kick off work on a Moon base using bricks made of lunar soil within the next five years, state-run news outlet CGTN reports.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The facility will be used to monitor how humans handle living a year on Mars. A grueling experiment, but at least the volunteers will be able to game.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

If you're sending humans back to the Moon for the first time in over 50 years, you better make sure your astronauts are safe — and look good while doing it.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

There's a random Canadian astronaut going to the Moon with three Americans from NASA next year — and according to him, that's by design. 
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA astronaut chief Joe Acaba wanted to get three lucky astronauts all in the same meeting to tell them they were Moon-bound. Easier said than done.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have detected radio signals from a rocky planet revolving around its star, making it a strong candidate for an exoplanet with an atmosphere.
Exoplanets

By Frank Landymore

NASA has announced the astronauts who will fly to the Moon during the Artemis II mission, the first humans to head to the Moon in more than 50 years.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Space startup Astrolabs has signed a contract with SpaceX to send its rover to the Moon as soon as 2026 on board the space company's Starship rocket.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The crypto platform LunarCrush will be stowing a bounty of 62 Bitcoin on the Moon, currently worth around $1.5 million — and it's completely up for grabs.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

Harvard Prof Teams Up With Military Official to Study Possible Alien “Mothership”
Exobiology

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese researchers found an entirely new source of water on the surface of the Moon in the form of tiny glass beads.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The moons of Uranus could harbor oceans that are ungratefully spewing magnetized plasma particles onto their host planet's surface.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

Some scientists have made fancy space concrete out of potato starch — and it works much better thank building bricks out of blood and urine to work.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Rolls-Royce Will Be Building a Nuclear Reactor for the Moon
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crashing Moons Might Be Annihilating Aliens Somewhere, Researchers Argue
Exobiology

By Frank Landymore

Axiom Space showed off a prototype of its brand new spacesuit today — a design created by the costume designer of the hit sci-fi show "For All Mankind."
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted some dunes that are practically perfect circles. So the question remains: how did they form?
Mars

By Frank Landymore

A new study paints a detailed picture of Mars' climate and water cycle — by mapping how its Swiss cheese-like polar deposits formed over time.
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Florida-based startup Lonestar Data Holdings will be testing a data center on the Moon, which it believes could be the most secure location for data yet.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

According to a new study, AI tools might seriously improve humanity's chances of discovering aliens on Mars — and beyond.
Exobiology

By Maggie Harrison Dupré