A newly identified planet candidate, HD 137010 b, looks strikingly Earth-like in size and orbit — but it may be colder than Mars due to its dimmer star. If it has a thick enough atmosphere, though, ...

A mission to Mars is humanity’s greatest challenge yet—a nearly thousand-day voyage across millions of kilometers, where ...

Scientists Find Signs That Mars May Once Have Been Covered by an Ocean ...

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NASA may wind up renting space at the SpaceX lunar city for its explorers and scientists at less cost than if it built one ...

NASA's Viking missions to Mars may have discovered evidence for life on the Red Planet after all, according to scientists who ...

A recent study showed that Mars was warm and wet billions of years ago. The finding contrasts with another theory that this era was mainly cold and icy. The result has implications for the idea that ...

SpaceX is putting its longstanding focus of sending humans to Mars on the back burner to prioritize establishing a settlement ...

Elon Musk’s ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat for a rather nearer and more achievable goal – ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

What appears to be a single volcanic eruption is often the result of complex processes operating deep beneath the surface, ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form.