The presidential budget suggests trashing science missions in favor of colonizing Mars. A new study argues that research must ...

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...

A later study done by NASA in 1998 suggested the bacteria ... And those organisms will travel with us to Mars. New species of bacteria have been found inside China's Tiangong-1 space station ...

A new study debates the complex ethical questions that must be considered if we're to terraform Mars and lays the blueprint ...

SpaceX’s spacecraft can undergo a different type of analysis before flying since it’s not going to another planet, but NASA’s exploration spacecraft cannot. Back in 2007, the company failed to make ...

In a new paper, a group of planetary scientists, biologists, and engineers make the case for treating Mars as the ultimate ...

The find, made at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), reveals that some microbes are not only resilient but may even be capable of surviving the extreme conditions of Mars. The bacteria were ...

New research suggests Mars' slope streaks are the result of wind and dust, not water. © NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona In 1976, NASA’s Viking mission ...

As NASA rolls out more powerful telescopes in the future, scientists will need a way to determine where to point them. A new ...

According to the study, published ... The find, made at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), reveals that some microbes are not only resilient but may even be capable of surviving the extreme ...

The Mars rovers, for example, collect rock samples that could contain evidence of fossilized ancient Martian microbes. (They haven't found any yet, but you never know!) NASA is planning to send a ...