Scientists Just Found Evidence That Asteroids May Have Helped Create Life on Earth
Researchers in South Korea found ancient stromatolites inside an asteroid impact crater, pointing to a surprising link between…
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…
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…
Voyager 1’s famous Pale Blue Dot photograph was nearly never taken — Carl Sagan pushed NASA to turn the camera back toward Earth after the planetary mission was over, while engineers worried the Sun’s glare could damage the optics
On February 14, 1990, six billion kilometers from the sun, Voyager 1 swiveled around and took a photograph…
The Arecibo message — humanity’s most famous deliberate radio message to another civilization — was aimed at a star cluster about 25,000 light-years away in 1974, meaning even an immediate reply would not reach Earth until around 52,000 CE
Imagine standing under a tent on a karst hillside in Puerto Rico, on an afternoon in November 1974,…
Nothing beats a beautiful sunset (from space) photo of the day for May 26, 2026
A sunset captured from space on May 4, 2026. (Image credit: NASA/Chris Williams) There are few sights as…
Australia’s first astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg invited to International Space Station
Australia’s first qualified astronaut is closer to her first space flight than ever before, but the trip is…
NASA is building a nuclear reactor for the Moon by 2030 — and testing the nuclear propulsion that could carry humans to Mars in the decade after — under a new directive that revives a space-nuclear ambition the agency has been quietly chasing since Apollo
NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced, on January 13, 2026, that they had signed a memorandum…
Scientists just found a supercharged supernova — powered up by a magnetic star corpse
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray spacecraft has observed a super-bright, supercharged supernova explosion that may have been powered up by…
A Probe Took Incredible Pictures of Mars on Its Way to a Far-Off Asteroid
The Psyche probe, launched in October 2023 on its way to the metallic asteroid it studies, recently performed…
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,…
These light-powered mini-ships could reach another star in just 20 years
These light-powered mini-ships could reach another star in just 20 years – Futura-Sciences May 24, 2026 3 min…