A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

A perfectly square-shaped structure on Mars, 3 kilometers wide, spotted in NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera images, has sparked ...

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

Humans are inching closer to living beyond Earth, but sustaining life on the moon or Mars requires a critical resource: water ...

Researchers have now developed a simple test that could get us closer to the answer. The new method involves looking for ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...

Living on Mars would significantly impact astrology, altering traits associated with zodiac signs due to the planet's unique ...