"What is it about Mars that has made it so prominent in our culture, almost more than any other celestial object?" ...

Built by Lockheed Martin and operated by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Juno launched from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 5, 2011, ...

Life may be able to survive beneath the surface of Mars and other planets because of energy generated by cosmic rays, ...

Coustenis noted that U.S. President Trump's budget request to Congress does not support NASA's Mars Sample Return (MSR) ...

Searching for life on Mars has been an explicit goal of the astrobiological community for decades. However, they have not ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped black and white images of a rock on the Martian surface that looks remarkably like a piece ...

New research published in Nature Communications identifies an iron sulfate on Mars that may represent a brand-new mineral.

Microbes are tiny living things that are found all around us. Also known as microorganisms, they are too small to be seen by ...

Cosmic rays traveling through space may provide enough energy to sustain life even in incredibly cold and dark environments, ...

Professor Gal-Mor said that the fresh insights will help our understanding of infectious disease risks in space travel.

NASA’s Mars simulation experiment pushed the very limits of human endurance, placing four volunteers in a confined Martian habitat for over a year to mirror life on the Red Planet. While the mission’s ...

A recent investigation by researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi suggests that cosmic rays—high-energy particles that travel through ...