China challenging U.S. to become next great space power
China’s space program has hit a number of milestones lately. In 2025, China executed over 90 orbital launches,…
A Solar Superstorm Blasted Mars—and Its Atmosphere Freaked Out
When the surface of the Sun exploded with activity in May 2024, Earth was hit by the biggest…
China team’s space laser breakthrough takes communication speeds to high orbit
Chinese scientists have reported a milestone in space laser communications, sustaining a high-speed, hours-long laser link with a…
Mars once had beaches like Earth! Radar data is revealing the buried shoreline |
Mars once had beaches like Earth (Image source: Canva) For decades, scientists have debated whether Mars once had…
Extremophile Bacteria May Hitch Rides on Asteroid Fragments
Earlier work has demonstrated that an extremophile bacterium species called Deinococcus radiodurans can survive the radiation, cold, and…
Scientists Finally Found Something Tardigrades Can’t Survive
Tardigrades are tiny, endearing, and practically invincible. As it turns out, however, not even tardigrades can survive the…
How the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere
ⓘ NASA via Unsplash A simulated view of Mars Mars is now a shadow of its former self,…
Lightning on Mars: NASA’s MAVEN Orbiter Reveals a Strange Phenomenon on the Red Planet
Researchers have identified powerful Martian electrical discharges, similar to lightning, and strong enough to be observed from orbit,…
Short-term Survival Of Tardigrades In Martian Regolith Simulants
Images of tardigrades with mineral coatings. Each image is annotated with the sample, simulant and time of exposure…
NASA’s ESCAPADE Ready to Study Space Weather from Earth to Mars
Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today…
Recycled human waste could help grow crops on moon and Mars colonies
The dream of a sustainable human presence on the moon or Mars has long been rooted in science…
NASA’s Curiosity Finds Crunchy Nodules Where Ancient Martian Water Once Stood
NASA’s Curiosity rover got a closer look at strange geological patterns on Mars: hardened ridges with sandy hollows…