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

New research suggests that ancient Mars might have experienced alternating hot and cold periods, enabling it to retain liquid ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

This NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image, acquired on May 13, 2018, during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region and as the sun returns in the spring, ...

The article humorously imagines how planets would describe themselves if they were dating profiles. Each planet has a unique ...

Look to the southwest sky after sunset on Saturday, as the sliver of a waxing crescent moon nears bright Venus with Saturn ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

16, 2024 — The combination of low temperature, atmospheric pressure ... direct evidence of ancient hot water activity on Mars, revealing the planet may have been habitable at some point in ...

From volcanic terrains to vast deserts, our planet is filled with ... of human settlements on the moon and Mars. Due to their ...

While it has been established that water exists on the Moon, pinpointing its precise locations presents a formidable ...

But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, ...

NASA is currently working on a range of technologies to help astronauts conduct a three-year round trip to Mars.