Life on Earth might not be as Earthly as we think. A recent research published in The Conversation explores a revived and ...

The potential for sending payloads and people to Mars is therefore becoming plausible in a way that it never has before. Mars ...

Mars is no longer just a story about a single lost ocean or one fleeting window for biology. Taken together, recent rover ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...

On record 2025 as one of the most amazing years in contemporary astronomy, providing findings that would turn our collective ...

Here’s the latest dirt on Mars. NASA’s trusty Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the so-called red planet for years, just unearthed something huge — a stash of carbon-rich carbonate minerals ...

It might be surprising to hear planetary scientist Nina Lanza use the word “disappointing” in the same sentence as “Mars.” After all, the Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher has dedicated her ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

A mudstone sample from Jezero Crater shows textures and minerals that on Earth often form through microbial activity. Scientists caution that nonbiological processes could also explain the features, ...

The rover’s science instruments found that the formation’s sedimentary rocks are composed of clay and silt, which, on Earth, are excellent preservers of past microbial life. The findings were made ...

NASA's Perseverance robot, depicted here landing on the Martian dunes, used its cutting-edge cameras to image what could be the first evidence of life ever detected on Mars, opening the possibility ...

If you followed news about either the media industry or space exploration back in 2021, you probably remember when the New York Times accidentally published a story claiming that watermelons had been ...