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NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover celebrated a decade on the Red Planet on Friday with an art poster. New missions and helicopters are in the Red Planet's future.

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Celebrates 10th Anniversary

By Lonnie Lee Hood

China Launches Mysterious “Reusable Test” Spacecraft

China Launches Mysterious “Reusable Test” Spacecraft

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage rocket responsible for carrying Crew-5 astronauts to the International Space Station hit a bridge during transport.

SpaceX Astronaut Launch Delayed Because Its Rocket Smashed Into a Bridge

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

International scientists disocvered a tertiary, or triple, star system with a third star orbiting a binary of two stars. The stars are massive in size.

Scientists Discover Unique Triple Star System

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In a recent TikTok video, European astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti recalled the very specific smell she encountered once boarding the space station.

Astronaut Complains of Pervasive Odor on Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

The mysterious red ocean glow pilot Dustin Maggard captured in photos and video of the Pacific Ocean was caused by commercial saury fishing vessel lights.

Expert Finds Compelling Explanation for Mysterious Red Glow in Ocean

By Lonnie Lee Hood

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

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian urged the United States to stop militarizing space. The US is spending billions on the Space Force.

China Accuses United States of Militarizing Outer Space

By Lonnie Lee Hood

$The first photo from the James Webb Space Telescope is already awe-inspiring enough — but as it turns out, that's only a fraction of the whole picture.$

James Webb Space Telescope

The First Webb Photo Will Blow Your Wig Off If You Zoom Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

NASA revealed that Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace will provide new-and-improved spacesuits for the upcoming Artemis moon landings, and followers were feeling a little baffled — not to mention left hanging — when the designers failed to produce any actual imagery of the fits.

We Just Got the First Peek at NASA’s Artemis Moon Landing Suits

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A team published a new study in the preprint journal Arxiv and said humanity could become an interplanetary Kardashev Type I Civilization by the year 2371.

Humans Approaching Intelligence Level Required for Interplanetary Life, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers released a new image of M87*, a black hole photographed in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope -- and it doesn't match the first one.

Science & Energy

Bad News! That Image of a Black Hole Might Be Totally Screwed Up

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In the latest news, Russia believes American farmers rely on its GLONASS geoloation system to get by, according to Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin.

Crabby Russian Space Program Head Turns Sights on American Farmers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The classified payload Angara-1 rocket was supposed to deliver to orbit for Russia wasn't working after it launched last month. "Z" is painted on its side.

Advanced Transport

Russia Totally Screws Up Space Launch

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The James Webb Space Telescope just sent NASA a photo of a far-away neighboring galaxy. Scientific observations begin in July, says AP.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Provides Dazzling New Image of Neighboring Galaxy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers at Nanjing University in China say lunar soil may support long-term human life on the Moon because by providing resources like oxygen and fuel.

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Turn Moon Soil Into Spaceship Fuel and Oxygen

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA released creepy wailing noises made by a black hole in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster on Wednesday. Researchers have studied it since 2003.

Scientists Capture the Mournful Wailing of a Black Hole

By Lonnie Lee Hood

European Space Agency astronaut Maurer shows us how to brush your teeth, get ready for bed and sleep aboard the International Space Station.

Please Enjoy This Cozy Video of an Astronaut Getting Ready to Slumber

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Amazing Footage Shows Inside of Space Station When It Fires Its Mighty Thrusters

Amazing Footage Shows Inside of Space Station When It Fires Its Mighty Thrusters

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, called the "Hero of Russia" won't return to the ISS because he'd have to help Americans with experiments in space.

Cosmonaut Quits Because He Doesn’t Want to “Work for the Americans”

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A University of Oxford professor says we may be very wrong about the way the universe looks and expands, re-writing cosmology rules and theory.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say We May Be Extremely Wrong About the Universe

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Booster was damaged in part of a SpaceX test and photos leaked online. CEO Elon Musk hasn't said anything on Twitter while trying to buy the platform.

Advanced Transport

Leaked Photo Shows SpaceX’s New Prototype Damaged

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Former Astronaut Details Quest to Grow Cannabinoids in Space

Former Astronaut Details Quest to Grow Cannabinoids in Space

By Victor Tangermann

A new study published last week in arXiv reports that researchers found an unidentified object nearly 13.5 billion light-years away in the universe.

Scientists Detect Huge Object, Farther Away Than Anything Else Detected in Universe

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Now, Scientific American reports that researchers have created a new message to beam out to any intelligent aliens who might be out there.

Science & Energy

NASA Scientist Creates New Message for Aliens, Including Human DNA

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA has finalized the list of targets that the James Webb Space Telescope will study, but is keeping the first one a secret.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Is Keeping the James Webb Telescope’s First Target Secret

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Comet Leonard flew a little too close to the Sun and likely broke into a million pieces during its closest approach.

Unfortunate Comet Flies Too Close to the Sun, Disintegrates and Becomes a Ghost

By Victor Tangermann

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and private space exploration company Blue Origin, didn't like the way his crotch looked in the Blue Origin spacesuit.

Jeff Bezos Was Reportedly Upset That His Spacesuit Didn’t Make His Crotch Look Good

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Two scientists have teamed up to unlock the secrets of dark matter — and we asked them everything you're afraid to ask about the mysterious substance.

Science & Energy

Inside NASA’s Bold Proposal to Probe the Mysteries of Dark Matter

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Gen Z-founded startup wants to transport goods in capsules that travel faster than the speed of sound to space — and those goods include artificial organs.

Weird Startup Proposes Dropping Artificial Human Organs From Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

The topic of people boning in space has remained a bit of a taboo ever since we, as a species, ventured into the great unknown for the first time.

Scientists Say We Really Have to Talk About Boning in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk walks into a sombrero festival...and the memes write themselves.

The Internet Is Losing Its Mind Over a Photo of Elon Musk Eating a Huge Potato Spiral

By Noor Al-Sibai

An asteroid called 2022 AE1 showed potential impact with Earth in July of 2023, but the threat has now been reduced to nearly zero and will not impact.

Good News: Killer Asteroid Not Going to Hit Earth, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In an interview with Science, cosmologist and busy Twitter user Katie Mack laid out some of the weirdest and silliest "facts" about space she's seen.

Cosmologist Lists the Stupidest Things People Believe About Space

By Victor Tangermann

"If you block cooperation with us, who will save the ISS from uncontrolled deorbiting and falling into the United States," he wrote.

Head of Russian Space Program Appears to Threaten to Smash US With Space Debris

By Victor Tangermann

It appears that nobody knows exactly what is going on with that rocket that's set to crash into the moon.

Experts Say China Is Probably Lying About the Rocket Crashing Into the Moon

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new NASA news update published Friday included 18 separate images of the same star captured by the James Webb Space Telescope and its 18 mirror segments.

James Webb Space Telescope

NASA Releases James Webb Shot of Star From All 18 Mirrors

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A meme has been circulating since 2021 trying to disprove the existence of gas planets like Jupiter — but NASA and others disproved the conspiracy.

Nitwits Claim Wrongly to Have Disproved the Existence of Jupiter

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new photo taken by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, or the TGO, shows a tree stump-like crater on Mars, providing insight into impacts on the Martian surface.

Photo of Mars Crater Looks Amazingly Like a Giant Tree Stump

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Archaeologists launched the solar system's first archeology "dig" studying human culture aboard the International Space Station this week.

Will Archeologists Learn Anything Useful In New Space Station “Dig”?

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A study published in Nature found that astronaut's bodies are destroying their own blood through hemolysis, causing space anemia after returning to Earth.

Space Is Wreaking Havoc on Astronauts’ Blood

By Lonnie Lee Hood

One of NASA's top scientists finally shaved his "James Webb Beard" yesterday to celebrate the James Webb Space Telescope's successful deployment.

NASA Scientist Shaves Off “James Webb Beard” After Successful Deployment

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A global team of scientists says they've detected water on the Moon using data the China National Space Administration provided.

China Says Its Lander Has Detected Water on the Moon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

If we treat the idea of straight space sex as an inevitability, we need to treat gay space sex the same way -- and urgently.

We Need to Talk About Gay Sex in Space

By Tony Ho Tran

US-Russian relations have hit a new low after Russia conducted an anti-satellite (ASAT) test in orbit.

US Government Furious at Russian Anti-Satellite Test

By Victor Tangermann

For the second time in a week, the International Space Station (ISS) has gotten close enough to an interstellar "debris cloud" to cause the team of astronauts aboard to take refuge in their exit spaceships.

ISS Astronauts Shelter in Escape Vehicles as Mysterious Debris Threatens Station

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Moon's top layer of rocky soil, known as "regolith," likely contains enough oxygen for 8 billion people to survive for about 100,000 years.

The Moon Has Enough Oxygen Buried Beneath Its Surface to Sustain Billions of People

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman says he feared drowning during a spacewalk, when a malfunction threatened to fill his spacesuit helmet with water.

NASA Astronaut Says He Almost Drowned During Spacewalk

By Jon Christian

Scientists at the University of Chicago say that they've successfully created a "strange" new state of matter in the laboratory called "superionic ice."

Scientists Say They’ve Created a “Strange” New State of Matter

By Jon Christian

China claims that it was testing a totally harmless, reusable spacecraft — and not a hypersonic nuclear-capable missile as was reported this weekend.

China Says It Was Testing a New Spaceship, Not a Hypersonic Missile

By Tony Ho Tran

Uranus has a name that lends itself to butt jokes. But it's also immensely important to scientists, who have mixed feelings on the juvenile humor.

Science & Energy

Here’s What Uranus Scientists Think About Your Disgusting Jokes

By Dan Robitzski

The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its launch site in French Guiana, where it will undergo final touchups before launching in December.

Science & Energy

NASA’s Scandal-Plagued James Webb Telescope Arrives at Launch Site

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists still aren't positive what caused the earthquake-like tremors across New Hampshire, but the new best guess is a meteor exploding overhead.

Science & Energy

Meteor May Have Caused Huge Explosion Over New Hampshire, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

New research conducted on five Russian cosmonauts confirms that traveling to space damages the human brain. Now scientists want to know why.

Neuroscience and Brain

Russian Study Confirms That Space Travel Damages Your Brain Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) spotted a strange blue glow over Europe early last month that turned out to be a "rare occurrence."

Space Station Astronauts Spot Strange Glow Over Europe

By Tony Ho Tran

Disappointed by Roscosmos' lack of results and failure to keep pace with SpaceX, Vladimir Putin is drastically cutting the space agency's budget.

A Disappointed Putin Is Slashing Funding for Russia’s Space Program

By Dan Robitzski

Russia passed a new law declaring that any independent reporters or media organizations that cover the space program will be designated "foreign agents."

Russia Bans Journalists From Covering Its Space Program

By Dan Robitzski

Billionaire Larry Connor, the pilot for the upcoming all-civilian mission to the International Space Station, wants the world to know he's a regular dude.

Billionaire Flying SpaceX to Space Station Says He’s Just an Average Guy

By Dan Robitzski

Former Blue Origin employee Alexandra Abrams has accused the company's senior leadership of rampant sexism, descrimination, and disregarding safety issues.

Former Jeff Bezos Space Employee: “I Really Wished He Was the Person We All Thought He Was”

By Dan Robitzski

Current and former Blue Origin employees wrote an op-ed in which they say they don't trust that the company's New Shepard rocket is safe.

Blue Origin Employees Say They Don’t Think Its Rocket Is Safe, Wouldn’t Ride In It

By Dan Robitzski

The Sun is about to pass between Mars and Earth, so NASA and the CNSA are putting their various rovers into safe mode until it moves.

Every Mars Rover Is About To Go Into Safe Mode

By Dan Robitzski