Tonight, the night sky offers a magnificent spectacle for stargazers, especially those keen to witness the moon’s dance ...

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic ...

Future missions to Mars may want to dig into ice rather than rock. Scientists say ancient microbes, or traces of them, could be locked inside Martian ...

Southwest Research Institute was part of an international team that demonstrated how complex organic molecules (COMs), key ...

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper mission will perform 49 close flybys of Jupiter’s icy moon, where radiation levels reach 5,400 milliSieverts per day — lethal within hours. Beneath its frozen crust may lie a ...

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Traces of ancient life on Mars can persist for tens of millions of years in the ice, even under the influence of cosmic radiation. This conclusion was reached by scientists from NASA and the ...

Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have been gazing at signals that left the solar system before many of today's graduate students were even born ...

In January 1986, Voyager 2 flew past Uranus and sent back to Earth grainy images of Miranda, marking the last time humanity ...

Old Apollo rocks are providing a fresh take on the moon's magnetic field ...

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.