NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Nicky Fox, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate, will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST, Tuesday, Jan. 7, to provide an update on the status ...

By analyzing factors such as crustal thickness, radioactive heat generation, and mantle heat flow, they simulated how heat affected potential crustal melting and groundwater stability.

An independent review team is delivering a final report to NASA leadership to determine if the agency's Mars Sample Return ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

The resulting products were ionized; their mass-to-charge ratios were determined based on the time it took for them to reach ...

Ingenuity, NASA’s Mars Helicopter, surpassed expectations as the first aircraft to operate on another planet. Despite being designed for five test flights over 30 days, it completed 72 flights across ...

JPL believes the Chopper could be the ideal way to get powerful scientific instruments into areas rovers would be unable to access. Ingenuity was tethered to Perseverance for communication, but the ...

Mars' ancient hydrothermal systems may hold the key to understanding its potential for harboring life. These environments, ...

NASA’s retired InSight lander, now covered in Martian dust, continues to offer insights into Mars through images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Over its four-year mission, InSight ...

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is now the first drone to fly on a Rose Parade float. The floral-but-flight-worthy display ...

Ever since the discovery of methane on Mars, scientists have wondered if the Red Planet might harbor life. Now, researchers ...

While Earth’s northern hemisphere welcomes the new year with the quiet chill of winter, Mars transforms into a fiery theater ...