The research has implications for NASA’s goals to build a base on the moon and eventually conduct crewed missions to Mars.

Why did the ice ages occur? If you need a scapegoat, a new study by Stephen Kane of UC Riverside suggests pointing the finger ...

Mars is half the size of Earth and has only a tenth of its mass, but a new study shows that even such a "lightweight" planet ...

It looks like NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has come to a bureaucratic end. The mission was to be the crowning ...

The reactors will be used to support NASA's moon research and future missions to Mars, according to the announcement Tuesday.

Hidden in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, these surreal cliffs have an alien feel. Perfectly barren and wind-carved, it’s a ...

NASA planetary science division director Louise Prockter conceded that the agency is "very unlikely" to recover its MAVEN ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

What would it take to make a cobb salad on Mars? How would you grow the lettuce, or raise the chickens? NASA launched a ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is a closed ecosystem, and the biology inside it — including its microbial residents — ...

NASA's Artemis 2 rollout could be as early as this weekend as the space agency makes final preparations for its first crewed ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...