The following are some images taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter—illustrated above—that capture the explosive ...

Mars Science Laboratory Our How Things Work feature for November 2011 focuses on the landing of the Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory in August 2012. But that will be just the start of this most ...

Russia is extensively testing a new plasma based rocket engine that will use charged hydrogen particles to gain turbulent ...

While the Martian clouds may look like the kind seen in Earth’s skies, they include frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice.

Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, recently developed a new spacecraft engine with impressive specifications.

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During the latest round of layoffs, the tiny team was among the hundreds let go. And though some parts of the educational ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Rocket Lab’s architecture resembles NASA’s original Mars Sample Return profile ... a nonprofit group advocating for planetary science. The group urged the incoming Trump administration ...

Eyes on Mars was created and is run by two PhD students, Catherine Regan and Priya Patel. They are both studying at University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory, and both have research ...

Though it's a cold, dead planet, Mars still has its own natural beauty about it. This image shows us something we'll never ...

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