Space

the T-Minus logo over a gif of NASA's Mars 2020 mission on its decent to Mars
Aerospace
T-Minus Weekly: The end of O2 on Mars and the week’s other big space stories
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest developments in space, featuring the launch of XRISM, the end of MOXIE, and more.
Kristin Houser
NASA engineers in a lab lowering MOXIE into a Mars rover
Aerospace
NASA finishes the first experiment to make oxygen on Mars
NASA has officially wrapped up the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE), which was the first tech to generate oxygen on Mars.
Kristin Houser
An image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble telescope.
Outer Space
New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension
Ethan Siegel
data from an astronomical survey with the new potentially hazardous asteroid flagged
Asteroids
Algorithm finds a potentially hazardous asteroid missed by NASA
Kristin Houser
A person is holding up a small circular solar cell made from lunar regolith.
Aerospace
NASA gives Blue Origin $35 million to turn moon dust into solar cells
Kristin Houser
A man exploring life on Mars standing next to a spacecraft in the desert.
Outer Space
NASA may have accidentally killed the only life we ever found on Mars 50 years ago
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
A 3D view of the blobs in Earth’s mantle
Planet Earth
Theory proposes remnants of a destroyed planet lurk near Earth’s core
Tom Ough
A 3D rendering of a fusion rocket spacecraft.
Aerospace
A fusion rocket designed to travel 500,000 mph is under construction
Kristin Houser
Japanese temple amidst tall trees.
Astronomy
World’s oldest trees reveal the largest solar storm in history
Ethan Siegel
A black hole emitting gravitational waves due to the presence of another black hole within it.
Astronomy
Astronomers use dead stars to measure gravitational waves produced by ancient black holes
Chris Impey
An artist's rendering showcasing Mars' magnetic field.
Outer Space
How Mars lost its magnetic field — and then its oceans
Elizabeth Fernandez
A woman engaging in water recycling on the ISS.
Aerospace
NASA now recycles 98% of astronauts’ urine and sweat
Kristin Houser
an artist's rendering of a space station with a capsule approaching
AI
NASA’s ChatGPT-like AI will let spaceships talk to astronauts
Kristin Houser