Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

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

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

During the Cold War, American and Soviet scientists embarked on an unprecedented quest to contact extraterrestrials. But ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never gets old for Mariek Schmidt.

UK astrophotographer Josh Dury on night-sky success, his passion for documenting natural skies, a brand-new book and an ...

If you love space, National Astronomy Week (NAW) is happening from 1-9 February to celebrate the best planet parade in 40 ...

On the evening of Jan. 13, there will be a very special kind of eclipse of the planet Mars by the Moon ... The Popular Astronomy Club holds monthly membership meetings at the Butterworth Center ...

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