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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

Jupiter's moons all vary considerably in size, as demonstrated in an amazing new video shared by the account MetaBallStudios on YouTube.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Exoplanet SPECULOOS-2c, perhaps, can maybe give us an exact solar radiation level to be wary of. (Or a ballpark figure, at least.)
Exoplanets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter has spotted some strange junk briefly hanging from one of its landing legs like an errant piece of toilet paper.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

China may have chosen the shadiest way to broadcast that there's trouble in paradise with its joint lunar mission with Russia.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers keep finding evidence that water once existed on Mars — and this time, their findings suggest it flowed in Biblical proportions. 
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

On Sunday, a massive oil leak was detected in Louisiana in Saint Bernard Parish after suspicious activity. Around 20,000 gallons of oil leaked in the spill.
Mars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Combing through over 400 previous SETI surveys of our stars,scientists find that our telescopes pick up way more useful information than once thought,
Exobiology

By Frank Landymore

The brave little Mars lander that could is keeping on' keepin' on — even though it was supposed to die earlier this year. 
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

China's Mars orbiter and rover have together captured potential evidence of an ancient ocean on the planet's surface as we learn more about Martian water.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you've ever wondered what a meteoroid sounds like when it slams into another planet, NASA says they've recorded just that — for the first time ever.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

Sometimes, to achieve great things, you inevitably have to leave a bunch of junk laying around, even if it's eight tons worth.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

NASA pointed the incredibly powerful James Webb Space Telescope at Mars for the first time, getting a new look at some of the planet's oldest scars.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

The search for evidence of life on Mars ramps up as NASA's Perseverance rover has already secured some promising samples containing organic matter.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

A team of astronomers at MIT suspect Saturn may be hiding the remains of an ancient moon in its rings — which could explain the planet's unusual tilt.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's tiny, Moon-bound CAPSTONE probe is once again in trouble after its launch earlier this summer — and is quite literally spinning out of control. 
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Swiss scientist has made a bold prediction about the discovery of alien life — and his reasoning is honestly really sound.
Exobiology

By Noor Al-Sibai

The space race may just have heated up amid China's reported discovery of a new lunar mineral that could possibly be used as an energy source. 
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA's has yet to ignite and launch its Space Launch System-powered Artemis 1 rocket into orbit, an unfortunate bookend for a rocket plagued by setbacks.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

To some, colonizing Mars with billionaire SpaceX CEO Elon Musk might sound fun. To others, like NASA astronaut Stan Love, it sounds like pure misery.
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US and China are gearing up for an awkward confrontation if both decide to land their respective lunar rockets on similar spots at the Moon.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

On the day of its next launch attempt, NASA's Moon-bound Space Launch System is dealing with a fuel leak on the launchpad.
Moon

By Jon Christian

In conversation with Futurism, a former NASA administrator discusses everything from the SLS to Russia to early meetings with Elon Musk.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astrophysicist and Harvard professor Avi Loeb is convinced that a meteor that crashed into the ocean years ago may have been alien in origin.
Exobiology

By Frank Landymore

Moving a huge rocket is tough. John Giles, the man in charge of doing just that, is not happy at the prospect of a delay forcing his team to do it all over.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

Known as MOXIE, this lunchbox-sized machine aboard the Mars rover can generate breathable oxygen directly from the Martian atmosphere.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just took its first direct image of an exoplanet, a gas giant, lurking outside of the Solar System.
Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

China wasted no time criticizing NASA — and its administrator, Bill Nelson — after the US space agency's uber-expensive moon rocket failed to launch.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has officially scrubbed this morning's inaugural launch of Artemis 1, what was meant to be the maiden voyage of the agency's Space Launch System.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just closed up the hatch of its Orion spacecraft, yet another step towards the agency's historic return to the Moon next week.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has made the first "clear detection" of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, according to NASA.
Exoplanets

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's former second-in-command is once again warning that the public may be in for some major surprises with the SLS launch next week.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

A "skeleton" Starship will only pale in comparison to the eventual spacecraft that will carry a crew to the Moon during NASA's Artemis 3 mission.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is gearing up for the Artemis 1 Moon mission launch later this month, and the space program is packing it with appearances by celebrity guests.
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has announced that the Artemis 1 will contain living yeast samples that will be dropped off on the Moon later this month — surely nothing can go wrong!
Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has finally rolled its massive Moon-bound rocket to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida — and ahead of schedule for once.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, astronauts who board a crewed mission to Mars will likely face devastating levels of radiation.
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Almost immediately after the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex made Artemis 1 Moon misson launch tickets available to the public, the website crashed.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artemis I is set to launch August 29 for an uncrewed mission to the Moon. NASA hopes Artemis will return humans to the lunar surface.
Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Last month, NASA’s Perseverance rover spotted an unknown, noodle-like object on Mars. Now the space agency has identified what actually is.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

On Wednesday, NASA announced that it plans to send two more Ingenuity-class helicopters to Mars to assist in its mission to bring Martian samples to Earth.
Mars

By Frank Landymore

Jupiter's massive moons may be the reason why the gas giant never formed rings like its neighbor Saturn, according to new research.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers have discovered "pits" in the lunar surface which, according to their computer modeling, sit at a balmy 63 degrees Fahrenheit.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

A NASA-funded project aims to use the Sun as a gigantic lens to peer into the far reaches of the universe to look for extraterrestrial biosignatures.
Exobiology

By Victor Tangermann

China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft has taken an incredible image of Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting Mars, from just 3,160 miles away.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

An object that looks like a bundle of string that showed up in images taken by NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover earlier this month has suddenly disappeared.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

New imagery of the largest canyon in the solar system was captured on the Red Planet by the ESA and the Mars Express mission.
Mars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In light of a Florida family's space-loving young son's unexpected death, they're trying to raise the funds to rest his ashes on the Moon.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of space startups have teamed up to launch the first-ever private mission to Mars — a highly ambitious plan, Ars Technica reports.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

NASA has released stunning new images of Jupiter and its moon Europa, taken by its groundbreaking new James Webb Space Telescope.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover discovered something strange as it traversed Mars on Tuesday — a string-like material that looked like noodles.
Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's Mars dreams may have to temper with a harsh reality put forth by equally-frustrating nerd Neil DeGrasse Tyson. 
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Japanese researchers say we'll probably need their newly designed Moon base with artificial gravity if humans are going to live on the Moon.
Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA dropped an update on its official blog detailing the causes of their satellite's dropout. In a nutshell? A bad command and a software error.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

Yesterday, news broke that NASA lost contact with its just-launched CAPSTONE satellite, just a day after the spacecraft successfully escaped Earth’s orbit.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

If you're worried about NASA's plan to bring Mars rocks back to Earth to study them, you probably don't need to be, scientists say.
Mars

By Noor Al-Sibai

NASA has encountered "communication issues" and is attempting to "re-establish contact" with its Moon-bound CAPSTONE satellite.
Moon

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Capstone satellite is currently hurtling towards the Moon after successfully breaking free of Earth's orbit on Monday.
Moon

By Frank Landymore

NASA Chief Bill Nelson had some choice words to say about China's upcoming Moon missions, alleging that the nation intends to take the Moon for itself.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Obsessed with this sizable turtle, which NASA caught smiling in front of their colossal Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket.
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Needs Your Help Spotting Clouds On Mars
Mars

By Frank Landymore

While examining eight-year-old data from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, scientists have made a tantalizing new discovery.
Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Moon dirt that was digested and recovered from cockroach carcasses probably isn't going to a new home, after all. NASA wants RR Auction to halt its sale.
Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA Spots Location Where Derelict Rocket Smashed Into the Moon
Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré