A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

According to a new study, 70% of astronauts who have spent between six and 12 months aboard the International Space Station ...

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Because Mars lacks plate tectonics, unlike Earth, the surface seen today is similar to that of long ago, making its history ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

The area containing the clay-bearing mounds is geologically connected to Oxia Planum, which is where Rosalind Franklin will ...

The phenomenon of seeing familiar patterns in objects where none exists is called pareidolia. In terms of our evolution, it ...

Don't put your binoculars away just yet, the planet parade continues through February. Here's which planets will be visible ...

Scientists Suggest That Mars Was Warm and Held Water Billions of Years Ago, Much More Like Earth in the Past Researchers have ...

While NASA and other space agencies have perennially cast Mars as a target destination for human landings in the distant future, Zubrin has scripted a series of books, including The Case for Mars ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. But there are ...