Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch believes his research into extremophiles in the Atacama could help NASA re-assess its search for ...

Deep beneath Greenland's ice, NASA radar happened upon Camp Century, a long-lost Cold War base now buried under 100 feet of ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

There's no shortage of cool features of mysterious origins to be found on the surface of Mars, but the next one that NASA ...

NASA stitched together a 360° view of the rover's surroundings, which NASA turned into a convenient video with spacey music.

In 1789, U.S. President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, to be Thanksgiving Day. It was the first U.S. holiday by ...

Life on Mars may have been found — before it was accidentally destroyed during a NASA mission nearly 50 years ago, one ...

Musk's involvement in space policy raises potential conflicts of interest, and that's not the only change on the horizon.

Planetary scientists recently simulated an alternate version of our solar system: one with a super-Earth causing climate ...

Computer simulations suggest that Mars' puzzling moons, Phobos and Deimos, may have been formed from debris created when a large asteroid wandered dangerously close to the Red Planet.

To uncover the truth about the origins of these moons, scientists are looking forward to the Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) ...