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Building a long‑term base on the Moon will require extensive planning – a planetary geologist describes the considerations that go into it
Clive Neal, University of Notre Dame Lots of excitement for space bubbled up in spring 2026. The Artemis…
Cracks in the International Space Station are causing air leaks – how much longer can it remain habitable?
Christopher Newman, Northumbria University, Newcastle On June 5, 2026, Nasa ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station…
Do you want to be an astronaut? Career routes that can take you to space
Kirsty Lindsay, Northumbria University, Newcastle In 2024, I flew on a microgravity, or zero G, parabolic flight with…
Could it be aliens? From Cheyava Falls on Mars to exoplanet K2‑18b – here’s what scientists really think
Peter Vickers, Durham University It may seem like we are on the verge of discovering alien life. In…
Space exploration in the backyard, on a budget – how NASA simulates conditions in space without blasting off
Analog missions, like those conducted at NASA’s CHAPEA facility at the Johnson Space Center, help scientists study human…
NASA’s rover finds potential sign of life on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered potential biosignatures in a Martian rock sample, indicating the presence of iron-rich minerals and organic carbon, which suggests a past habitable environment that may have been sustained by microbial life.
How Big Does an Asteroid Need to Be to End Humanity?
From city-destroyers to planet-sterilizers, scientists are tracking the asteroids that could one day threaten all life on Earth and developing the technology to prevent them from doing so.
We drilled deep under the sea to learn more about mega-earthquakes and tsunamis
The Japanese drilling vessel Chikyu. (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology) Morgane Brunet, Université du Québec à…
UW study: Flaw in rover tests risks future Mars missions
New computer simulations reveal a critical flaw in how space agencies test rovers, leading to overly optimistic predictions for missions on the moon and Mars.
NASA’s New Horizons pilots by starlight from 5B miles away
By measuring the apparent shift of nearby stars from its vantage point billions of miles away, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully demonstrated the first-ever method of interstellar navigation.