Nasa’s mission teams use extreme environments to trial equipment and procedures for future lunar and planetary exploration.

NASA’s ESCAPADE mission launched two small, affordable orbiters to Mars on Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. Discover how these ...

Mars keeps refusing to behave like the dead, simple world many scientists once imagined. Each new rover trench, fractured ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6.

A comprehensive report lays out a detailed science strategy to guide the initial human missions to the red planet.

For several decades, it has been thought that dust devils on Mars may be able to produce spark discharges. Many lab ...

Mars Express orbiter captures a slightly elliptical crater measuring roughly 12 miles (20 kilometres) east to wes ...

A new study reveals how specialized microbes might convert Martian regolith into durable, life-supporting structures. Since ...

Of course, everything on Mars has to be different from Earth — not even the thunder can sound like thunder. Instead, these tiny bits of lightning give off sounds more like those that people associate ...

Mars Express has found a unique butterfly-shaped crater on Mars. This formation resulted from a space rock hitting at a low ...