You know, if you take away the lack of air and water, the weaker Sun, the lower gravity, and the toxic soil, Mars isn’t all that bad of a place to live. And there are certainly worse places to live, like, I don’t know, Ohio (I’m allowed to say that because I grew up there). But there’s been a big push in the past two decades to not just go to Mars and visit, like we did with the Moon fifty years ago, but to stay there. Put down roots. Establish ourselves. Build a colony or a settlement.
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Microbial Life Colonizes Post-Impact Craters And Thrives For Millions Of Years
78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 km deep. The catastrophic impact created a fractured hydrothermal system in the shattered bedrock under the crater. There's evidence from other impact structures that in the aftermath of a collision, life colonized the shattered rock and heated water that flowed through it. But determining when the colonization happened is challenging.
Bad news for astronauts? Human stem cells age more rapidly in space, study suggests
A new study suggests that a group of cells, key for the health of blood and the immune system, are vulnerable to aging-like processes after spending time on the ISS.
Apple TV+'s sci-fi saga 'Foundation' is getting a Season 4: 'We look forward to continuing the epic'
"It's been fantastic to watch 'Foundation' become such a global phenomenon, with fans tuning in from every corner of the world."
Don't miss the beautiful summer Milky Way next week as the new moon goes dark on Sept. 21
The moon is near new phase this week, and clearer skies and cooler overnight temperatures means that this is also an optimum week to check out the beautiful summer Milky Way.
Watch an asteroid the size of the Washington Monument zoom past Earth live on Sept. 18 (video)
Watch live as a potentially hazardous asteroid makes a close flyby of Earth on Sept. 18.
Last Call for a Remarkable Titan Shadow Transit
Titan joins its shadow for a "grand finale" this October.
Breathtaking timelapse photos capture September's blood moon total lunar eclipse over Egypt's White Desert
See breathtaking images of September's blood moon total lunar eclipse from Egypt.
5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you
Climate models are complex, just like the world they mirror.
XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed an unexpected difference between the powerful winds launching from a disc around a neutron star and those from material circling supermassive black holes. The surprisingly dense wind blowing from the stellar system challenges our understanding of how such winds form and drive change in their surroundings.
Will the International Space Station be replaced before its fiery death in 2030?
NASA plans to send the ISS into Earth's atmosphere in 2030, and it has no plans for a replacement — at least, not directly.
'The sun is slowly waking up': Scientists say a rise in solar storms awaits us
The turning point seems to have been after 2008, which had the lowest amount of solar activity on record.
Mokoqi star projector night light review
The Mokoqi star projector is aimed at babies and young children and is designed to aid sleep with ambient projections but is not scientifically accurate.
Sunrise silhouettes the world's largest telescope | Space photo of the day for Sept. 17, 2025
Astronomy isn’t just about distant stars; it’s also about the human effort here on Earth that makes it possible to extend our vision out into the cosmos.
Vaonis Vespera Pro smart telescope review
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Lucy's Main Belt Target Has Its Features Named
When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system there are still a lot of places out there that need proper names. That means the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the non-governmental body responsible for naming astronomical objects, has its work cut out for them. Recently they tackled a relatively easy challenge by approving a series of names on the asteroid Donaldjohnson, the first and only target of NASA’s Lucy mission in the main asteroid belt. With those names come a whole new way to talk about one of the asteroids that humanity has studied most closely thus far.
A Girl Scout was injured in a remote California canyon. Here's how satellites got help to her in minutes
"Without satellite-enabled communication and precise location identification, this rescue could have stretched from hours into days."
Northrop Grumman's 'Cygnus XL' cargo spacecraft suffers thruster issue on way to the International Space Station
Northrop Grumman's new "Cygnus XL" cargo ship won't arrive at the ISS on Wednesday morning (Sept. 17) as planned after suffering a thruster issue in orbit.
NASA, Northrop Grumman postpone Cygnus XL arrival to ISS following propulsion issue
File (Aug. 6, 2024) — Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo craft, with its prominent cymbal-shaped UltraFlex solar arrays, is pictured awaiting its capture by the Canadarm2 robotic arm commanded by Expedition 71 Flight Engineer Matthew Dominick of NASA. The maneuver marked the 50th free-flying capture for the Canadarm2 robotic arm. Image: NASA
Northrop Grumman’s new Cygnus XL spacecraft will no longer dock with the International Space Station Wednesday morning as originally planned.
Make Like A Spacecraft And Fly Through Gaia’s 3D Map Of Stellar Nurseries
When the ESA launched the Gaia spacecraft in 2013, it didn't generate the same fanfare as the launch of other missions like the JWST, or first light from telescopes like the Vera Rubin Observatory. That's largely because Gaia doesn't capture gorgeous images of celestial objects like other telescopes. Instead, Gaia was an astrometry mission.
Earth Has Another Quasi-Satellite: The Asteroid Arjuna 2025 PN7
Whenever astronomers detect something new moving through our region of space, like an interstellar object or an unusual asteroid, somebody somewhere claims it could be an alien interstellar space probe. It's like one of those laws about human behaviour—Godwin's Law for example—that should probably have its own name.
