Mars is not just a colder, dustier version of Earth. It is a planet soaked in high‑energy particles that batter rock, metal, ...

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a ...

The current image of Mars as an arid and hostile desert contrasts sharply with the history revealed by its surface. Channels, ...

Itokawa was the driving force behind Japan's postwar space program. An aircraft engineer, he had designed one of the nation's ...

How does Mars lose its water, and what can this teach scientists about the planet’s ancient past when it had much more water?

Picture a spacecraft returning to Earth after a long journey. The vehicle slams into the planet's atmosphere at roughly ...

NASA selects STRIVE and EDGE missions to advance Earth science research, improve atmospheric and ecosystem monitoring, and support environmental and safety planning.

NASA scientists unearthed a new exoplanet, dubbed the 'cold Earth,' from retired Kepler telescope data. This Earth-sized world, HD 137010 b, orbits a distant star and, despite frigid temperatures, may ...

The planet is one of the best worlds for follow-up studies to determine whether it could be habitable or not.

Astronomers have detected an exoplanet candidate around a Sun-like star just 146 light-years away from us.

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Ancient volcanic rocks reveal how two giant hot regions beneath Africa and the Pacific have shaped Earth's magnetic shield.