Martian dust contains hazardous substances like silica, perchlorates, nanophase iron oxides and toxic metals, which can cause ...

Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require significant ...

NASA's Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars ' irradiated surface.

Carbon dioxide (CO₂) pollution drives climate change, warming the planet and threatening human survival. Plants naturally ...

Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...

Dramatic theories have been proposed to explain the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, the ice giants of our solar ...

Elon Musk has made a lot of wild statements, but this one might top them all: "I'd like to die on Mars. Just not on impact." ...

Dragon’s departure from the ISS and re-entry is designed to be fully autonomous, requiring no action from the crew onboard, a ...

New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

The Ordovician extinction is thought to have killed off about 60 percent of the invertebrate sea creatures at a time when most of Earth's species lived in the ocean; the late Devonian event ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant impact on Mars. Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos ...