Did you ever go out with friends as a child and roam around the neighborhood, pretending to look for space rocks? Any time you found something that looked "out of the ordinary", you would come up with ...

One of their innovative projects involves creating concrete suitable for construction on Mars without using water — a ...

NASA's Perseverance collects the “Silver Mountain” sample in Jezero, revealing geological secrets and possible traces of ...

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...

New research on meteorites may finally hold the answers to why Earth and Mars suffer from a mysterious absence of specific ...

Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...

Planetesimal collisions during planet formation in the early solar system. Credit: Kouji Kanba. For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like ...

Chemotaxis, a process for chemically inducing movement in an organism, may be a crucial tool in the search for life on Mars.

Two asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, (246 ... that show similar spectral features to angrites [some of the solar system's oldest meteorites, believed to have originated ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas astrobiologist leading the ...