South Korea is joining the new space race with plans for a moon base and Mars landing – both by 2045. As of mid-2025, no country has a permanent moon base. Well, not yet, anyway. However, below the ...

The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments) ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York, while a juvenile dinosaur skeleton went for ...

When we picture Mars today, we see a cold, lifeless desert, battered by dust storms and cosmic radiation. But billions of years ago, the Red Planet told a very different story. Mars was once a warm, ...

A new study identifies Amazonis Planitia, particularly the AP-8 region, as a promising landing site on Mars. This location ...

The capsule entered a free fall, accelerating to near-supersonic speeds before triggering a two-stage parachute deployment identical to what will be used on Mars.

No one doubts that rocket tests mean failures, but the question for Starship is this: Is it just having extended teething ...

Joining the world's biggest economies who want to conquer the Moon is South Korea, which recently released a roadmap to ...

When astronauts return from the International Space Station, many have noticed an unexpected side effect of their mission, ...

In 1971, Utah lawmakers passed a proposal to create a “Space Port Committee.” The group of business leaders, politicians, ...

About 20 miles north of Pittsburgh, the charming borough of Mars has fully embraced its planetary namesake with an out-of-this-world monument that makes other town squares look downright mundane by ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why Earth stayed warm and alive while Mars turned cold and dry. Both planets began ...