Mars
Business
Bezos Beats Musk to Mars as NASA Chooses Blue Origin
NASA announced Wednesday that it will send two scientific spacecraft to Mars aboard Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket in August 2024.
Musk's SpaceX company was initially set to carry the NASA payload on a Falcon Heavy rocket in October of...
Science
Scientists Solve Mystery of Strongest Marsquake
In a recent report, scientists unveiled remarkable news about Mars. They discovered that the most powerful quake ever on Mars didn't happen because of a crashing space rock. Instead, it was caused by the planet's own internal tectonic forces....
Space
Scientists Create AI that Could Detect Alien Life
The development of an artificial intelligence (AI) program capable of detecting alien life in physical samples is a significant breakthrough in astrobiology and scientific research.
The AI program in question has been trained using a diverse range of materials, including...
Space
NASA’s Mars Sample Return Plan Is Deeply Flawed, Experts Say
NASA has decided to postpone its Mars Sample Return (MSR) program's next development phase due to significant problems with its technical readiness, cost, and schedule. An independent review recently looked into these issues and raised serious concerns.
On September 21st,...
Celebrities
Elon Musk’s Name Appears in 69-Year-Old Book About Space Travel
Elon Musk, the tech billionaire and once richest person in the world, has promised to bring humans to Mars by 2024. But was his mission predicted nearly 70 years ago in a fiction book?
Musk has cryptically tweeted in the...
Space
Life on Mars “Found 50 Years Ago But Then Destroyed”
Amid ongoing efforts to find signs of life on Mars, NASA's upcoming mission to collect samples from the planet is on track to wrapping up in the early 2020s. Yet, a scientist has put forward a thought-provoking idea that...
Space
Fusion Rocket Capable of Travelling at 500,000 MPH is Under Construction
A new aerospace company from the UK is developing a fusion rocket. They believe this rocket can greatly reduce the time it takes for astronauts to go to Mars and other faraway destinations. This could open up opportunities for...
Science
Mars Keeps Spinning Faster, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why
New recordings from Mars have delivered the most accurate measurement yet of how fast the red planet spins. The results have left scientists puzzled as mars keeps spinning faster.
Using data gathered by the now-retired InSight lander, researchers have discovered...
Space
NASA’s 1st Nuclear-Powered Rocket Could Launch as Soon as 2025
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are teaming up for a new mission that could change space travel forever. They're aiming to launch the world's very first nuclear-powered spacecraft into orbit, and it could happen as...
Space
NASA Rover Spots Bizarre Donut Shaped Rock on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has spotted a strange donut-shaped rock on Mars, which is likely a meteorite that crashed onto the Red Planet.
The bizarre big, dark stone, which has a hole in its center, was found surrounded by stones of...