By fertilizing inorganic regolith with organic human waste that has been processed through bioreactors, future astronauts living on Mars could be able to create their own organic soil.
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Test your knowledge of Japan's boldest leaps into the cosmos with a quiz that explores JAXA's missions, milestones, and the science shaping humanity's future among the stars.
He-Man prepares to renew hostilities with Skeletor in a live-action reboot of the toy-inspired cartoon. But does he still have the power?
The Japanese company Space One will launch its Kairos rocket for the third time ever today (March 3), and you can watch it live. Kairos failed on its two previous liftoffs.
The galaxy NGC 941 was imaged by the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai'i.
The world's first commercial space telescope has released its first image as it begins its journey to help track nearby stars that might host habitable exoplanets.
There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.
From city skylines to remote dark skies, skywatchers worldwide captured the total lunar eclipse 2026 in all its crimson glory.
NASA has repaired its Artemis 2 rocket, apparently keeping things on track for a possible April launch of the first crewed moon mission in more than 50 years.
Tonight's blood moon was the last that will be seen over North America until New Year's Eve 2028.
Using gravitational waves as a measure of the universe's rate of expansion could solve the biggest headache in physics, the so-called "Hubble tension."
Cloud cover outlook for the total lunar eclipse — where the blood moon will be visible.
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter and Mars shine together after sunset in early March, with Mercury at its best of 2026.
The JUICE spacecraft captured its first detailed glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing a glowing coma and sweeping tail.
NASA is changing its plans to return astronauts to the moon, and redrawing the architecture for how the Artemis missions will look moving forward.
After this 'blood moon,' our natural satellite will not fully disappear into Earth's shadow again for nearly three years — until a rare trifecta of total lunar eclipses in 2028–29 ends the drought.
NASA brought its mega moon rocket back into the shop for repairs on Feb. 25, 2026, just as the sun was setting over the Florida Space Coast.

