Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

78 million years ago, a 1.6 km asteroid slammed into what is now Finland, creating a crater 23 km (14 mi) wide and 750 km ...

The NASA and ESA Mars Sample Return mission will send bits of the Red Planet collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth.

A rock found last year on the surface of Mars offered tantalising evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet. Now ...

Viking consisted of two twin orbiters and landers, with experimental chambers in the landers to conduct three biology ...

“This finding by Perseverance …is the closest we have ever come to discovering life on Mars,” said acting NASA administrator ...

Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...

Mars, for all its flaws — and there are many, including radiation, dust storms, and unbreathable air — is the only planet in our solar system that’s a candidate for settlement. Its day and night cycle ...

High-energy particles zipping through the cosmos are harmful to life on Earth, but scientists think it could be food for ...

SpaceX has successfully demonstrated on three occasions that it can successfully land the Super Heavy booster back at ...

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...