Astronomers discover a super-Earth that may have an atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing an exoplanet and two red stars. Astronomers have recently discovered a…
Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Cleared For Launch After Suffering Malfunction
After suffering an embarrassing setback with the third launch of the New Glenn rocket, Blue Origin is hoping…
A million people on Mars, a billion SpaceX shares: Inside Elon Musk’s peculiar performance-based bonuses
When SpaceX released its investor prospectus last week, it revealed an unusual condition in the compensation deal for…
When a Soviet rover went silent on the Moon in 1971, scientists assumed it was gone for good — but nearly forty years later, the reflector strapped to its back answered a laser pulse from Earth as if no time had passed at all
On November 17, 1970, a Soviet unmanned mission called Luna 17 landed on the Sea of Rains, a…
DARPA readies robotic deep-space repair satellite for 2026 launch
DARPA is at last ready to test fueling up satellites in faraway Earth orbits, to keep those machines…
A dazzling new galaxy image stuns astronomers with its blinding cosmic heart
A dazzling new galaxy image stuns astronomers with its blinding cosmic heart – Futura-Sciences May 25, 2026 3…
How Mars Can Help Us Understand ‘Marginal’ Exoplanets
Mars holds a special place in the Solar System. It represents marginal habitability. This means it transitioned from…
Michael Collins, dubbed by the press “the loneliest man in history” while orbiting the far side of the Moon for roughly forty-seven minutes at a time, gently corrected the description — he said he felt isolated, but never lonely
As the command module Columbia slipped behind the Moon on the afternoon of July 20, 1969 and lost…
The International Space Station has sprung a new leak
The very premium air leak in the very best Russian part of the International Space Station is back!…
Astronomers find an unusual exoplanet with cloudy mornings and clear evenings
Astronomers studying a distant exoplanet’s atmosphere have one persistent problem: clouds. They scatter light, muddle readings, and tend…
Evidence of ancient life has just been found buried inside an asteroid crater — and the discovery suggests the warm lakes created by major impacts may have been some of the original cradles of life on Earth
The standard cultural framing of where life on Earth originated has, for most of the last several decades,…
NASA Releases Technology Priorities to Energize Space Industry
NASA released the 2026 Civil Space Shortfall Ranking list on Wednesday, which integrates more than 400 responses from stakeholders including…