#space-exploration

Scientists propose a compact X-ray telescope to map the Moon's surface chemistry from orbit, using solar flares to reveal five key elements across the entire lunar surface in just two years.

NASA considers extending Hubble's life with a reboost mission, but high operating costs must be reduced first. A similar rescue for Swift telescope is underway.

A NASA-backed concept called LEAP would use a spring-driven, one-legged robot to hop across Saturn’s moon Enceladus and sample material from its geysers.

A new essay from Universe Today revisits one of space science’s most irritating materials, arguing that the same dust that clogs missions, coats equipment, and threatens health is also fundamental to how the cosmos works

Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield says Artemis II could shape careers, ambitions, and public imagination for years to come, arguing that the mission’s deepest value may be cultural and generational rather than immediate.

After years of delays, partnership shifts and geopolitical disruption, Europe’s first Mars rover mission now has a confirmed launch vehicle: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, with liftoff targeted for late 2028.

Researchers at the University of Southern California report a memristor that operated reliably at 700 degrees Celsius, a result that could reshape electronics for Venus missions and other extreme environments.

Jeff VanderMeer’s new story in MIT Technology Review imagines stranded explorers traversing a hostile planet linked by immense paths between 13 heated domes. The result is a tense meditation on survival, contact, and the

NASA has published the first official moon-flyby images from Artemis II, including a rare in-space solar eclipse and views of terrain on the lunar far side as the crew returns to Earth.

NASA’s Artemis 2 crew completed a lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, circling behind the moon, witnessing a total solar eclipse from beyond it, and traveling farther from Earth than any humans before them.

Artemis II mission specialist Jeremy Hansen is set to become the first Canadian to fly around the moon, capping a long wait that included years of technical, policy, and astronaut-training work.

As NASA finalizes preparations for Artemis II — the first crewed mission beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo — the agency converges with Hollywood in the release of 'Project Hail Mary,' which NASA scientists helped shape and ISS crews screened in orbit.

A century ago today, Robert Goddard launched the world's first successful liquid-fueled rocket in a Massachusetts field, flying for just 2.5 seconds in a moment that changed the trajectory of civilization.

Scientists analyzing dust samples returned from asteroid Ryugu by Japan's Hayabusa-2 mission have uncovered a 4.6-billion-year magnetic record that reveals conditions in the earliest days of the solar system.

NASA's Juno spacecraft discovers that auroras on Jupiter's moon Ganymede splinter into bright patches mirroring Earth's northern lights.

Hollywood has painted a romanticized picture of life on the Red Planet, from Matt Damon growing potatoes to Arnold Schwarzenegger surviving the Martian surface. But experts say the real challenges of off-world living are far more daunting and far less cinematic than anything science fiction has prepared us for.

Scientists have created the first three-dimensional map of Uranus's upper atmosphere using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing how the planet's bizarre tilted magnetic field creates complex auroral patterns and drives atmospheric cooling. The 15-hour observation session captured faint molecular emissions up to 5,000 kilometers above the clouds.

NASA will attempt to fuel its Artemis 2 Space Launch System rocket for the second time on February 19, after a hydrogen leak during the first wet dress rehearsal forced the agency to wave off a February launch window. If the test succeeds, a crewed lunar mission could launch as early as March.

A hydrogen fuel leak during the Artemis II wet dress rehearsal has pushed the crewed Moon mission from February to March 2026, as technicians replace seals on the mobile launcher.

A new strategic analysis outlines three pathways for deploying fission reactors on the Moon and Mars, arguing that nuclear power is the only viable option for sustained human presence beyond Earth.