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

NASA’s Mars Lander Refuses to Die Even Though It’s Supposed To

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.

Chinese Rover Discovers Evidence of Ancient Ocean on 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.

NASA Releases First-Ever Audio of Meteoroids Smashing Into 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.

Humans Have Already Left a Staggering Amount of Trash on 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.

James Webb Targets Mars, Showing Catastrophic Ancient Damage

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.

NASA Seems Awfully Excited About Finding Organic Matter on 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.

Saturn Might Be Hiding Remains of a Secret, Massive Moon in Its Rings

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.

NASA’s Moon Spacecraft Is Tumbling Out of Control

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.

Swiss Government Scientist Says We May Be on the Brink of Discovering Alien Life

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.

China Approves Three Moon Missions After Discovering Mineral That Could Be Energy Source

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.

NASA Announces Plan to Fix Moon Rocket, and Maybe Launch It Eventually

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.

NASA Astronaut Says Elon Musk’s Mars Colony Sounds “Horrible”

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.

Awkward! The US and China Are Looking at the Same Moon Landing Sites

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.

NASA Moon Launch Canceled When Super Expensive Rocket Starts Leaking on Launch Pad

By Jon Christian

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

Here’s What the Former Head of NASA Has to Say About the Moon Mission Delay

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.

Experts Puzzled by Harvard Scientist Looking for Alien Wreckage in Ocean

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.

Guy Who Has to Move NASA Moon Rocket Back to Hangar Very Annoyed

By Frank Landymore

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

NASA Flew an MIT Device to Mars, Where It’s Been Cranking Out Breathable Oxygen for More Than a Year

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.

James Webb Just Took Its First Direct Image of an Exoplanet

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.

China Slams NASA Leadership After Its Moon Launch Failure

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.

NASA Cancels First Launch Attempt of Uber Expensive Moon Rocket

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.

NASA Closes Hatch on Spacecraft Headed to the 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.

James Webb Spots “Clear Evidence” of CO2 in the Atmosphere of an Exoplanet

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.

Former NASA Official: Moon Launch This Month May Be “Embarrassing”

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.

NASA: SpaceX Only Has to Prove It Can Land Astronauts on Moon, Not Bring Them Home Again

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.

NASA Packs Artemis 1 Moon Launch With a Crop of Celebrity Guests

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!

NASA’s Moon Mission This Month Will Shoot a Probe Containing Life into Deep Space

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.

NASA Rolls Mega Moon Rocket Onto Launchpad

By Victor Tangermann

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

Mars Astronauts Would Get Horrifying Dose of Radiation, Study Finds

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.

Website Selling Moon Mission Launch Tickets Crashed Almost Immediately

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.

NASA Confirms Launch Date for Its Massive Moon Rocket

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.

NASA Finally Figured Out What That Weird Spaghetti It Found on Mars Was

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.

NASA Says It’s Sending Two More Ingenuity-Class Helicopters to 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.

Jupiter’s Moons Accused of Sucking Up the Planet’s Rings

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.

NASA Finds Holes on the Moon Where It’s Always a Comfortable Temperature

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.

Researchers Want to Use the Sun As a Giant Telescope to Look for Aliens

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.

China Takes Incredible Close Up Shot of Mars’ Moon Phobos

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.

Noodle-Like Object on Mars Has Disappeared, According to NASA Photos

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 Satellite Captures Breathtaking View of Deepest Canyon in Entire Solar System

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.

Parents Crowdfund to Send 11-Year-Old Son’s Ashes to the 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.

SpaceX Defector Is Aiming to Land on Mars Before Elon Musk

By Victor Tangermann

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

James Webb Picture of Jupiter So Crisp You Can See Its Moon Europa

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.

NASA Intrigued by Noodle-Like Object Found on 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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson Has Some Serious Beef With Elon Musk’s Mars Plans

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.

Japanese Team Invents Moon Base With Artificial Gravity

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.

We Finally Know Why NASA Lost Contact With Moonbound Spacecraft

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.

NASA Still Has No Contact With Spacecraft En Route to the 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 Rock Samples Probably Won’t Infect Earth With Deadly Martian Plague, Scientist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

NASA Loses Contact With Just-Launched Spacecraft Headed Toward Moon

By Victor Tangermann

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

There’s a NASA Satellite Headed Toward the Moon Right Now

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.

China Furious After NASA Accuses It of Stealing the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Chunky Turtle Spotted Near NASA’s Mega Moon Rocket

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NASA Needs Your Help Spotting Clouds On Mars

NASA Needs Your Help Spotting Clouds On Mars

By Frank Landymore

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

NASA Rover Finds New Potential Evidence for Ancient Life on 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.

NASA Demands Return of Moon Dust Pooped Out by Cockroaches

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA Spots Location Where Derelict Rocket Smashed Into the Moon

NASA Spots Location Where Derelict Rocket Smashed Into the Moon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Photographer and astronomer Andrew McCarthy has shared a stunning new image he took of the International Space Station transiting in front of a sunlit Moon.

Amazing Shot Captures Space Station Flying Directly Across the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

During a crucial Artemis 1 take-off test, the NASA's seemingly doomed Space Launch System sprung a leak in a hydrogen fuel valve.

NASA’s Super Expensive Mega Moon Rocket Starts Leaking During Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Michio Kaku says that he often gives his students a particular experiment in which he has them calculate the probability that they wake up on Mars tomorrow.

Physicist Says There’s a Small Chance You’ll Wake Up on Mars Tomorrow Due to Quantum Physics

By Noor Al-Sibai

China is hoping to leapfrog NASA by becoming the first nation to return Mars samples, SpaceNews reports, and by July 2031.

China Announces Plan to Obtain Mars Rocks Two Years Before NASA

By Victor Tangermann

According to leaked documents obtained by Ars Technica, NASA's plans to return astronauts to the surface on the Moon are in serious trouble.

Leaked Documents Show NASA’s Moon Landing Plans in Chaos

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists made a big splash, announcing they had received "suspicious signals." But they're likely the result of radio frequency interference.

Sorry, But New Signal Is Definitely Not Aliens, Says Scientist Working on Project

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the very first time, months after announcing plans to buy the social media network.

During Business Meeting, Elon Musk Suddenly Starts Talking About Aliens

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover spotted something interesting tucked into a boulder — but NASA confirmed it was just a regular ol' piece of human trash.

NASA Accuses NASA of Littering on Mars

By Maggie Harrison Dupré