One of the best parts about sending rovers like Perseverance to other planets, is sometimes they send back some absolutely ...

The tests also revealed that the ditches only develop on dunes with very fine, evenly sized sand grains. Coarser or more ...

Imagine a visitor from another star system, twice as old as Earth, hurtling through our cosmic neighbourhood. This isn't ...

In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.

Has NASA's Perseverance rover at long last found evidence that life did indeed once exist on Mars? Well, after more than four years of scouring the Red Planet's rocky surface, the intrepid rover has ...

Mars has two permanent polar ice caps of water ice and some dry ice, and a few patches of ice both on and under the surface.

NASA’s “leopard-spotted” Martian rock may be the clearest potential sign of ancient microbial life yet—proof awaits sample ...

NASA’s discovery of potential evidence of ancient life on Mars means “our galaxy could be teeming with life,” says a ...

A new analysis of chemical signatures measured by NASA's Curiosity Rover gives a peek at Mars's past to a time some 3.7 ...

Mars’ north polar vortex locks its atmosphere in extreme cold and darkness, freezing out water vapor and triggering a ...

A NASA study shows bacteria fragments can survive 50 million years in Martian ice. Pure ice, not rock, could hold clues to ...

To improve long term mission sustainability, NASA is planning two missions in the near future to demonstrate how to produce water on the moon and oxygen on Mars. The initiative known as IRSU, or ...