An international team of researchers has published a report on how Mars samples should be handled from a scientific point of ...

NASA’s rovers and orbiters take digital photos, send them as radio signals to orbiters, which relay them across space to ...

As 3I/ATLAS approached the inner solar system in September, the Nordic Optical Telescope in Spain's Canary Islands recorded a ...

The investigation into the Mars helicopter Ingenuity accident has found that the "lack of surface texture gave the navigation ...

Scientists treated the yeast, known scientifically as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with 100 millimolar sodium perchlorate alone ...

In 2013, NASA discovered a bacteria evading its most stringent disinfections. Scientists just figured out how it does it.

Buried underground near the surface, frozen regions of Mars could have tiny hidden channels full of liquid water, which could be a habitable environment for microscopic organisms ...

A US team has found that organic material can be detected in ice beneath the Martian surface even after a very long time.

Blocks of frozen carbon dioxide sliding down Martian dunes may have carved the planet’s strange gullies, mimicking the work ...

"We have found a habitable environment," said John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Curiosity mission. "The water that was here was so benign and supportive of life that if a ...

CO₂ ice blocks on Mars may dig gullies as they slide and sublimate in the thin atmosphere. In lab experiments, scientists ...

New study shows Mars went through shrinking ice ages, revealing how it lost water and where future missions might find what's left.