The closest place to look for extraterrestrial life is on planets within our solar system.
NASA and ESA have completed an agreement under which NASA will provide hundreds of millions of dollars of support for a ...
Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on how life is on Earth? Couldn’t there be totally different kinds of life on other planets? – Henry, age 13, Somerville, Massachusetts ...
Europe's unlucky Mars rover, known as Rosalind Franklin, has gotten a boost thanks to a new cooperation agreement with ...
Created using data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), the new video depicts the fractured, uneven ...
The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has developed a Declaration of Principles, a set of general guidelines for ...
Rosalind Franklin’s new tech could pave the way for 'radioisotope thermoelectric batteries' in spacecraft.
ESA's Mars Express orbiter surveyed the vast Nili Fossae trenches, which formed following a massive impact billions of years ...
A lot of people are focused on signs of alien life, but the space telescope will have a lot to say about exoplanet geology and formation.
In the following excerpt from his book, Shindell looks back at the accomplishments of the past 20 years, when NASA’s plucky ...
NASA's Perseverance rover is collecting Mars rock and soil that could contain hints of ancient alie… ...
NASA’s head of heliophysics explains how we weathered the worst solar storm of a generation—and discusses the challenges we ...