Why did a $72 million mission to study water on the moon fail so soon after launch? A new NASA report has the answer.

Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have finally settled a decades-long mystery about the Moon’s magnetic field — and it turns out both sides were right. By reanalyzing Apollo mission rocks, they ...

The Apollo missions’ strange landing zone has led to decades of incorrect assumptions about the Moon’s magnetic field strength.

America was winning the race to find Martian life. Then China jumped in. In July 2024, NASA’s Perseverance rover came across a peculiar rocky outcrop on Mars covered in strange spots. On Earth, these ...

Lockheed is focusing on developing Fission Surface Power (FSP) as the essential solution for enabling long-term human presence on the Moon.

Old Apollo rocks are providing a fresh take on the moon's magnetic field. The lunar magnetic field is currently weak or even nonexistent, but cranked up to superstrength for short snippets of time ...

Their rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), rolled back from Launch Complex-39B (LC-39B) to (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to ...

NASA moved its grounded Artemis moon rocket from the launch pad back to its hangar Wednesday for more repairs. The ...

On Monday night, someone placed a peculiar bet on the prediction market Kalshi. At 7:45 p.m. eastern time, a single trader put down nearly $100,000 on the claim that, by the end of December, the Trump ...

We examine the parallels between sci-fi concepts and current technological achievements. What innovations inspired by the ...

For All Mankind is an alternate-history drama that operates on a pretty straightforward principle: Suppose the Soviet Union ...