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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

Many fear that Martian samples could contain unknown, life-threatening interplanetary pathogens, and in a public NASA forum, they let the agency know.

Scientists Worried NASA Will Infect Earth With Deadly Martian Pathogens

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The clock is ticking for Voyager 1 and 2. NASA says the Voyager vehicles will run out of power by 2025, ending a decades-long mission launched in 1977.

Tragedy! NASA Says the Voyager Space Probes are Powering Down

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Venus may have once been a life-supporting system, and NASA is looking to shed light on how Earth's "twin" came to be — and how, more sinisterly, it died.

NASA Plotting Journey Through the Hellish Atmosphere of Venus

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists from the University of Florida say they've successfully grown plants in samples of lunar soil collected during three Apollo missions.

Scientists Grow Living Plants in Moon Soil Captured by Astronauts

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA plans to bring down the ISS in the Pacific Ocean but doesn't plan to retrieve or display historical artifacts from the space station.

International Space Station

NASA Reportedly Plans to Destroy the Entire ISS Instead of Letting Museums Save Chunks

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Avi Loeb wants to capture a high-res image of a UFO in two years with the Galileo Project, using telescopes on the Harvard observatory roof.

Harvard Astronomer Says He’s Building Device to Capture “High Resolution Image” of UFO

By Lonnie Lee Hood

It was just a month ago that the world was introduced to the bizarre cube on the moon — and just like that, it's gone.

Remember the “Moon Cube”? China Just Published a New Photo and Uhhhhh

By Noor Al-Sibai

Two professors say the first interstellar travel may transport tiny microscopic organisms known as tardigrades, or water bears, through space.

Scientists Propose Sending Small Creatures to Neighboring Star Systems

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Jim Green is leaving the space agency after four decades, but says he has plans to terraform Mars and make it habitable with a magnetic shield.

NASA’s Chief Scientist Quits, Says He Has a Plan to Terraform Mars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new article in Russian news details missed deadlines, unsafe space equipment and malfunctions as well as corruption and embezzlement at Roscosmos.

Russian Newspaper Publishes Brutal Takedown of Russian Space Program

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One space flight emits more carbon dioxide than most of the world's population will create in a lifetime. Billionaire space tourism could ruin the climate.

One Space Trip Emits a Lifetime’s Worth of Carbon Footprint

By Lonnie Lee Hood

United Launch Alliance delayed the Atlas 5 rocket launch after a leak was found in the fuel ground storage. The rocket carries Space Force satellites.

Military Satellite Launch Delayed After Fuel Leak

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Chinese lunar rover Yutu-2 captured images of a cube on the Moon's surface this week. The rover is moving in to check out the object.

Chinese Rover Exploring What Appears to Be Cube-Shaped Object on Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists are getting closer to cracking the physics of warp drive, according to aerospace engineering professor Jason Cassibry.

Science & Energy

Professor: Progress Toward Warp Drive Has Been “Enormous”

By Kristin Houser

NASA could put humans on Mars in just five years if given the money to do so, according to Ellen Stofan, the agency's former chief scientist.

Former NASA Chief Scientist: Humans Could Be on Mars in Five Years

By Kristin Houser