In his lecture, Levine noted, the United States is planning a human mission to Mars that may begin as early as 2035. The ...

These next two weeks, the evening sky offers us arguably the best overall parade in months of moon pairings with bright ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...

Experts estimate there could be thousands of species down there that we’ve never seen before, but this new method of mapping ...

Ancient oceans, which were heavy on iron, interacted differently with light wavelengths, retracting green light into the ...

What drives us to send probes throughout the solar system and rovers and landers to Mars? It's not cheap, and it's not easy.

Their paper, titled "Ancient Ocean Coastal Deposits Imaged on Mars", details the discovery of multilayered, inclined sedimentary structures at depths of 10 to 35 meters beneath the surface. The data ...

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

Martian dust could threaten astronaut health and equipment, with toxic particles causing lung damage and mission failures.

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