Where will humans go after Mars? Is Mars the end of the line or is it a steppingstone to somewhere else? If we “moon-to-Mars,” do we then “Mars-to-somewhere else?” These
This view of a crescent Mars was captured on May 15, 2026, at about 5:03 a.m. PDT by NASA’s Psyche mission as it approached the planet for a gravity assist.
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Magnetite formation under prebiotically plausible conditions. a Envisioned evaporative lake setting on early Earth, where magnetite likely formed via authigenic precipitation facilitated either by solar irradiation or nitrogen oxide from
China is establishing an integrated program called the Lunar Exploration Program, melding both its robotic Chang’e lunar probe activities with the country’s human spaceflight program. Zhang Jingbo, spokesman for the
Just five days after its debut flight, SpaceX’s Starship V3 megarocket has been grounded. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) just declared the May 22 Starship V3 launch a mishap
Where will humans go after Mars? Is Mars the end of the line or is it a steppingstone to somewhere else? If we “moon-to-Mars,” do we then “Mars-to-somewhere else?” These
This view of a crescent Mars was captured on May 15, 2026, at about 5:03 a.m. PDT by NASA’s Psyche mission as it approached the planet for a gravity assist.
Keith Cowing Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member 🖖🏻 Follow on Twitter
Magnetite formation under prebiotically plausible conditions. a Envisioned evaporative lake setting on early Earth, where magnetite likely formed via authigenic precipitation facilitated either by solar irradiation or nitrogen oxide from
Leaving The Home World – Grok via Astrobiology.com The Great Filter hypothesis proposes that the emergence of technological societies capable of interstellar travel depends on a small number of exceptionally
AMSTERDAM – European industry representatives and legal experts are worried that the EU Space Act is too slow, too rigid and too bureaucratic. Speaking at SmallSat Europe, panelists said they
SpinLaunch CEO Massimiliano “Massi” Ladovaz paints an ambitious picture of a rapidly shifting space industry driven as much by geopolitics and sovereignty as by engineering innovation. Ladovaz argued that SpinLaunch’s
On May 29, Apple TV will launch “Star City,” their 10-episode spinoff of “For All Mankind” that depicts an alternate history of the space race from the Soviet perspective as
