Mars’s Northern Ice Cap is Surprisingly Young

If you’ve ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice…

NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus

Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, Bohdan Wesely, right, and Eli Hiss,…

Intuitive Machines-2 Lifts Off – NASA

Creating a golden streak in the night sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Intuitive Machines’…

Spacecraft may need to be dirtier to keep astronauts healthy

The International Space Station may be a bit too clean Geopix/Alamy The strategy of keeping spacecraft…

Your space trivia | The Planetary Society

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NASA’S Lunar Trailblazer Hitches Ride to the Moon to Map Water for Astronauts

The moon is not bone dry, scientists now know. But how many drops of water will…

Metal made in space lands on Earth

The first metal 3D part ever created on orbit has landed on Earth.  The sample was…

Is T Coronae Borealis About to Light Up?

Late is better than never for the ‘Blaze Star’ T Coronae Borealis. It was on track…

Rare alignment of 7 planets to grace the sky on February 28, 2025

A rare celestial event will take place on Friday, February 28, 2025, when seven planets –…

Planetary alignment: How to see every planet in the solar system at once this week

An artist’s impression of the solar system Shutterstock/Vadim Sadovski All of our solar system’s planets are…