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We now know why the private Athena lander toppled over on the moon earlier this year. Athena, the second lunar lander built and operated by Houston company Intuitive Machines, fell

Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering surface than previously thought, according to new research. Unlike Earth, Venus lacks the geological

California startup Varda Space Industries has completed its third successful space capsule return mission. Varda’s W-3 reentry capsule landed in South Australia on Tuesday night (May 13), delivering a payload

Our motion tracker has been pointed at Alien: Earth, the Alien franchise’s first-ever TV show, for months now. We can confirm that we’ve detected movement, and, man, this is a

Dr. Bruce Jakosky has been a Mars researcher for almost 50 years and was the principal investigator for the MAVEN mission that explored the Martian upper atmosphere. Dr. Scott Hubbard

It’ll be a late lunch for SpaceX mission operators at Cape Canaveral due to the mid-day launch of another stack of Starlink satellites. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the

SpaceX’s Starship megarocket will fly again next week, if all goes according to plan. Elon Musk announced that timeline target in a Tuesday evening (May 13) X post, which also

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, an Expedition 73 crew member aboard the International Space Station, photographed the full “Flower” moon in May 2025. (Image credit: NASA/Nichole Ayers) The May 2025 full

Ancient volcanic heat may have shaped the moon from the inside out, keeping one side thinner, warmer and more geologically active than the other, a new study suggests. The moon‘s

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered into the atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon Titan, capturing the first evidence of cloud formation in this moon’s northern hemisphere. Titan is the