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The Moon, beautiful as she is, is easy to love. Which is why she has to know: would you still love her... if she were a worm?
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA has reinforced the launch date for its crewed Artemis II Moon mission next year — that is, if they're able to make it.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

As part of a Mars cloud survey, NASA's Curiosity rover imaged spectacular crepuscular rays for the first time during an especially painterly sunset.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

Bad news if you're hoping to hear about definitive signs of Martian life soon: the instruments of Mars rovers just aren't advanced enough.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

China's Zhurong Mars rover and its makers have remained unusually silent about the fate of the rover. It hasn't moved since September.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Jupiter's Galilean moons also having fascinating auroras like the Northern lights on Earth, but can be even more colorful and powerful.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

We have a humble suggestion: NASA should make interplanetary history once more by having its Ingenuity Mars helicopter do some sick tricks.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astrophysicists is suggesting we could protect the Earth from global warming by shooting lunar dust into space to shade the Earth from sunlight.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has made yet another astonishing discovery: "the mission's clearest evidence yet" of "ancient water ripples."
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has stumbled across yet another fascinating discovery while exploring the planet's barren surface, an iron-nickel meteorite.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Move over, Mars rover — a new reptilian robot may one day crawl the Red Planet's barren shores in the name of discovery and research.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Northern male quolls, endangered Australian marsupials, are dying prematurely as a result of sleepless quests for sex — and scientists are worried.
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Northwestern University astronomer Jason Wang has created a stunning timelapse of a number of planets orbiting a distant star.
Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

After almost two years of roaming the surface, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially dropped off the tenth and final Martian soil sample.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

As the Artemis mission's 2024 launch date steadily approaches, NASA is undertaking its secretive selection process to decide who will be sent to the Moon.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has announced that it's setting up a facility specifically to deposit Mars rock samples, which may contain traces of ancient life on the Red Planet. 
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a photo of an unusually mammalian structure on our dusty red neighbor. Definitely looks like a bear.
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus isn't only suspected to hold a liquid ocean beneath its icy crust — it's also covered in an astonishing amount of snow.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

South Korea's lunar orbiter has taken a fascinating image of the wall and floor of the Shackleton Crater on the shadowy far side of the Moon.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

If aliens were to be in touch tomorrow, humanity would be ill-prepared, scientists warn — something that needs to change as soon as possible.
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has issued a grant for an autonomous aircraft concept dubbed TitanAir designed to skim over the liquid methane lakes of Saturn's icy moon Titan.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists believe to have discovered a massive cache of precious gemstones on the surface of Mars in the form of opals.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

China's Zhurong rover might be in big trouble well over a year and a half into its stint on the Martian surface.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA administrator and former astronaut Bill Nelson is afraid that China may get to the Moon first — and claim portions of the surface as its own territory.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's InSight Lander has persevered for four years, but it may actually be drawing to its final end this time, despite rumblings of its demise before.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

A team of scientists has proposed that we could use existing Earth-based observatories to hunt for highly intelligent alien life forms and their advanced warp drive technologies.
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured images of deposits forming "mysterious shapes" inside massive craters.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released a stunning infrared image of Jupiter's moon Io, which shows the celestial body's volcanically-active surface.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

After its splashdown in the Pacific, NASA's Orion spacecraft, back from beyond the Moon, is now on solid ground, and it's looking pretty burned.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

With hard work and a good luck, scientists have clinched the first ever audio recording of a dust devil on Mars, helping solve mysteries of its atmosphere.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

Titan is Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, and new observations from the James Webb may help understand how it formed its unique atmosphere.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has announced the crew of his upcoming flight around the Moon on board a SpaceX Starship, which includes DJ Steve Aoki.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

While we're photos won't ever do the Moon's sheer size perfect justice, a new video from the Artemis mission's uncrewed Orion spacecraft might come close.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Part of the maiden voyage of NASA's Artemis Moon mission, the Orion capsule is now headed back from lunar orbit and will splash down soon in the Pacific.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

A scientist in the UK wants to build an old growth Earth forest in a bubble on surface of Mars, and honestly? He makes a good case.
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Orion spacecraft in its journey past the Moon has captured a stunning, perspective-inducing photo that shows both the Earth and Moon in view.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

3D printing firm ICON just landed a $57.2 million contract from NASA for Project Olympus, the company's mission to create 3D-printed Moon shelters.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Artemis mission has, after months of delay and tens of billions of dollars, finally reached the Moon, which it will orbit for the next 3.5 weeks.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scott Kelly, the retired NASA astronaut who once held the American record for the longest time spent in a single off-world orbit, is an outspoken guy.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A spaceflight photographer took to Twitter to post a mesmerizing video of the Artemis I launch, only to find himself the victim of an AI error.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA apparently barred the press from photographing the Artemis moon rocket launch when it lifted its Orion capsule off to space earlier this week. 
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA Says It’s Fine That Some Pieces May Have Fallen Off Its Moon Rocket During Launch
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has successfully launched its gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket early Wednesday morning, a landmark moment.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Teams have closed the hatch of NASA's Orion capsule sitting on top of its gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

According to officils, a ten feet-long piece of insulation peeled away from NASA's Moon rocket while Hurricane Nicole stormed by.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Winds reached 87 knots or 100 mph at the launch pad of NASA's SLS Moon rocket, which may have damaged it.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's uber-expensive Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket is officially back on the launch pad, but the agency is getting nervous about Hurricane Nicole.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has rolled out its gigantic Space Launch System (SLS) Moon rocket to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center yet again.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Against all odds, NASA's Mars lander has, somehow, continued truckin' along — but its inevitable death seems to finally be at hand. 
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Phobos has always puzzled astronomers for its asteroid like qualities. Now, using the ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, they've peered beneath its surface.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

In a presentation earlier this month, a team of researchers identified nine of the most livable caves on the surface of Mars.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

A bold new theory proposes that a "Conan the Bacterium" microorganism could survive under Mars' barren surface for hundreds of millions of years.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

By using NASA data and US Geological Survey software, scientists say they've found "definitive" evidence of a 3.5 billion year old ocean coastline.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

Infamous Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has released a new study that claims there could be an absurd amount of alien spacecraft already in our backyard.
Exobiology

By Frank Landymore

NASA's InSight lander detected a magnitude 4 marsquake on Christmas Eve last year, which turned out to be a massive meteorite impact.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Astronauts will make use of a specialized, pressurized rover that can handle any terrain the Moon throws at it, but it also doubles as an RV.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

With new tests, NASA is asking a bold question: What if the easiest way for rovers to land on Mars is to let it crash onto the surface?
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have spotted a gas giant planet in the vicinity of a red dwarf star, and its density is so low that it's comparable to a marshmallow.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

NASA Just Shot Tiny Bullets at Its Mars Spacecraft
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Astronomers accidentally discovered barium in the atmospheres of two Hot Jupiter exoplanets, and they can't figure out how it got there.
Exoplanets

By Frank Landymore

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has stumbled into a minor problem: it can't seal the tube of its latest collected sample.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

Methane producing microbes on Mars may have thrived deep underground billions of years ago, but also may have wiped themselves out, a new study suggests.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

The world's first-ever private space tourist is hitching a ride to the Moon with his wife — and on a SpaceX Starship, no less. 
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

A stunning new video captured by X shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasting past a gorgeous full Moon, a rare sight.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann