What happens when a solar superstorm hits Mars? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters, we now know: glitching ...
Mars might have its own defense mechanism against life from Earth, in a kind of reverse of "The War of the Worlds" scenario ...
The ultraviolet auroras were imaged by NASA's Juno probe on a brief flyby. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...
Government officials have said little about Trump’s most recent social media post on the matter. The president cited “tremendous interest” in the files, whatever they might contain. Perhaps the most ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has spent about six months studying unusual geological formations called boxwork — a network of low ridges about 3–6 feet tall that crisscross the Martian surface for miles, ...
Microbes blasted off a planet by an asteroid strike may survive the journey to another world, including Earth, according to a ...
While aliens in science fiction hop between planets on vast spaceships, scientists say real-life extraterrestrials might take ...
New photos captured by NASA's Curiosity rover show that Mars' giant, spiderweb-like "boxwork" features are covered in tiny, never-before-seen nodules that bear a striking resemblance to arachnid ...
Gypsum is a soft, translucent sulfate mineral that allows just enough light to penetrate for photosynthetic organisms to survive inside, while also protecting them from being desiccated or exposed to ...
Aliens exist – they just haven't visited Earth, a NASA veteran has claimed. Dr Gentry Lee has worked at the US space agency since 1968, when he first got involved with the Viking mission to Mars. He ...
If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.
New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.