Scientists combined lab radiation experiments, mathematical modeling and Curiosity data to ‘rewind the clock’ about 80 million years — the length of time the rock would have ...

February 11 is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science—a UN-declared observance that recognises the achievements and challenges of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and ...

Hubble keeps returning to the Egg Nebula because it changes in ways astronomers can actually track over years and decades. By comparing images taken at different times, scientists can see dust shift, ...

Scientists say the dream of settling the Red Planet comes with major health risks that we are only beginning to understand.

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of water on ancient Mars with "rippled textures" and "landslide debris" in the ...

In a new study, researchers say that nonbiological sources they considered could not fully account for the abundance of ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars. The discovery was made in ...

Known non-biological sources, from meteorites to surface chemistry, fall short of accounting for organic compounds detected ...

This isn’t the famous sample reported last September, but another with different signs of past life we’re struggling to ...

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

Dave Hendricks of Idaho Falls spent his entire 35-year career working in the Idaho desert at Idaho National Laboratory. It’s ...

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a newly adapted climate model, researchers showed that thin, seasonal ice ...