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Posted on August 6, 2025

‘We want to get there first and claim that for America’: NASA chief explains push for nuclear reactor on the moon (video)

Interim NASA Administrator Sean Duffy says his plan to put a nuclear reactor on the moon is part of his plain to "get there first and claim that for America."
Posted on August 6, 2025

Exotic ‘lava worlds’ are a hot new frontier in exoplanet science

Thanks to groundbreaking models and the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists are poised to explore their mysterious evolution and reveal clues about planetary formation across the galaxy.
Posted on August 6, 2025

China wants to return samples from Mars. Will there be any international cooperation?

International oversight would reduce risks, but could be "a politically sensitive and contentious matter."
Posted on August 6, 2025

Solar eruption from Earth-facing sunspot could bring auroras this week

The M4.4 solar flare unleashed a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth might just receive a glancing blow.
Posted on August 6, 2025

An icy supervolcano eruption on Pluto may have left a massive crater on the frozen world

The caldera may have blasted out its cryomagma in a single explosive event, or it may have spread its eruptions over time.
Posted on August 5, 2025

Earth’s ‘oldest’ impact crater is much younger than previously thought, new study finds

Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business.
Posted on August 5, 2025

NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $177 million for 1st multi-rover mission to moon’s south pole

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace a $176.7 million contract to deliver a pair of rovers and three scientific instruments to the moon's south pole.
Posted on August 5, 2025

NASA aiming to build nuclear reactor on the moon by 2030

NASA is accelerating its plans for a nuclear reactor on the moon, aiming to establish such a power outpost by 2030, according to Politico.
Posted on August 5, 2025

Extremely Large Telescope gets a roof | Space photo of the day for August 5, 2025

The world's largest optical telescope is still under construction but is raising the roof on its progress.
Posted on August 5, 2025

Solar farms could help find dangerous asteroids, scientist says

By transforming idle heliostats into asteroid detectors, scientists aim to develop a cost-effective method for spotting faint, fast-moving space rocks.

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