NASA plans nuclear-powered rocket for Mars exploration
Following a December 2025 executive order prioritizing “American space superiority,” NASA is advancing nuclear propulsion under the leadership…
What new Mars discoveries say about the possibility of ancient life
We’re getting closer and closer to definitely answering the question: Did life ever exist on Mars? April has…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Strange Fish-Scale Patterns on Mars
While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of…
New Research Allows Us to Imagine Surfing on Other Planets
Scientists believe that methane lakes on Saturn’s moon, Titan, could be ripe for making waves. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science…
Newly-Identified Geological Feature Points to Vast, Long-Dried Up Ocean in Northern Plains of Mars
A continent-like shelf beneath the Martian surface hints that a vast ocean once covered up to a third…
SpaceX wins its first MARS contract but it comes with a catch
Elon Musk revealed a shocking detail on the Tesla Optimus patent that was revealed last week. Despite it…
Fungi Survive Space and Mars Conditions, Study Finds
Engineers face an omnipresent but invisible enemy: microbial life in the cleanrooms where spacecraft are put together. All…
Japan to focus on lunar rover after US halts moon space station
A US move to freeze the Lunar Gateway orbiting space station could render Japan’s new technologies redundant –…
ESA’s Rosalind Franklin Explorer Seems Set For Mars, Finally
On 16th April, NASA signed up to the ROSA project with ESA. Formally called the Rosalind Franklin Support…
New Evidence For An Ancient Ocean On Mars
Sedimentologic and mineralogic evidence for sedimentary rocks, clay stratigraphy and open-basin deltas along and within the detected shelf.…
Forget relying on solar power: NASA plans to put nuclear reactors on the surface of the Moon
Published on 16/04/2026 – 16:44 GMT+2 Space capacities have grown significantly in the last several years, with NASA’s…
This New Image of Mars Is Not the Same Thing NASA Saw in 1976
Incoming views of Mars usually show its dusty, tan-colored surface littered with rocks, a familiar desert-like world that…