China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

Could this strange, mushroom-shaped object spotted by NASA’s Curiosity rover finally prove life exists on Mars? In this video, we dive into the viral image that has alien hunters buzzing — a ...

Astronomers have used the ALMA radio telescope to investigate how planets grow in protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around young stars.

NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument.

NASA ’s longest-running Mars mission has sent back an unprecedented side view of a massive volcano rising above the Red Planet, just before dawn. On May 2, as sunlight crept over the Martian ...

If you've spent any time perusing the carousel of raw images from NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, you might have stumbled across an odd subject: a tiny, intricate maze etched into a small plate ...

But we are not built for space,” he wrote in Nature. “Even the most fit and healthy person can find space disabling.” This image of Mars was taken by a NASA rover in 2004.

The rover’s main task: excavate lunar rock and soil and deposit it into a berm structure, mimicking NASA’s vision for future lunar infrastructure. “What set our design apart from other universities, ...