Mars still holds the promise of being one of the first places in the solar system humanity will colonize. However, if there ...

Yet, despite using the JWST's sensitive Near-Infrared Spectrometer, or NIRSpec, astronomers led by Piaulet-Ghorayeb found no ...

Scientists have found tiny crystal worlds teeming with life at the Great Salt Lake — a discovery that could reveal how ...

A large Martian meteorite found in Niger recently sold at auction. Now, the country is investigating the legality of its ...

Curiosity has discovered many small structures like this one, formed billions of years ago, when water was still liquid on ...

NASA is moving from operating its own Mars relay network to purchasing connectivity as a service, prompting aerospace companies including Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX, and Lockheed Martin to ...

This team of three robots are designed to survey and enter lava tubes, not just on Earth but on Mars and other planets as well. What kind of capabilities do they have that make the perfect team?

Thirteen years after landing on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is running smarter and more efficiently than ever. With new ...

The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks ...

The recent auction of a Martian meteorite – for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York – has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks fallen ...

Photophoresis occurs when gas molecules bounce more forcefully off the warm side of an object than the cool side, creating ...

With seven rocky planets, the planetary system of TRAPPIST-1 is one of the most exciting of all. Now another one has turned out not to be Earth-like.