Learn more about the hunt for bacteria on Mars and how astronauts will need to make sure they aren't bringing any dormant ...

Arcadia Planitia does not draw attention in the way Mars’s great canyons or volcanoes do. It sits quietly across the northern ...

Advances in technology have reopened the debate over terraforming Mars, shifting it from an impossible dream to a long-term scientific and ethical question.

For many years, astronomers have been looking for extraterrestrial life. In doing so, astronomers have narrowed their search ...

Poa is a common cool-season grassy weed, and it is tough to battle. Poa annua, also called annual bluegrass, thrives in cool ...

As NASA gears up to send four astronauts on a crewed flight around the moon in the imminent Artemis II mission, Axiom Space ...

Portugal has entered the small group of countries with experimental capability in hypersonic research ...

Nuclear power on the Moon has moved from science fiction to a concrete target on the United States space agenda. NASA and the ...

Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Earth’s ice ages have long been blamed on subtle wobbles in our own orbit, but new research suggests a distant accomplice is ...

What we see is sobering. In our simulations, electrodes can fracture during the deep freeze of a lunar night. Under direct ...

Published in the peer-reviewed The Astrophysical Journal, the research focuses on tidally locked planets, worlds that always ...