After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock and soil on the Martian surface. Experts are furious ...

Human life, and science as part of it, are based on certain mental schemes that we call paradigms, and which are sometimes ...

Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...

Mars is probably a pretty lonely place. The red planet is littered with rusty red rocks and, as far as we know, devoid of any kind of life. But even so, rovers still roam the surface of the world ...

In an era of reusable rockets and near-daily access to space, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch ...

The Mars Rover — or as it was officially known, the Opportunity Mars Rover — arrived on Mars in 2004, for what was supposed to be a roughly 90-day visit to the Red Planet. The rover was sent into ...

Sometimes you’re forced to break up, even if you don’t want to. That’s the sort of the predicament Meta Platforms Inc. could find itself in — but for investors, it’s not necessarily a ...

Artwork by the mysterious Banksy is now on display at Brookfield Place in Manhattan. The piece, titled "Battle to Survive a ...

Here’s the latest dirt on Mars. NASA’s trusty Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the so-called red planet for years, just unearthed something huge — a stash of carbon-rich carbonate ...

A NASA rover taking rock samples on Mars has uncovered a plentiful mineral that was invisible to orbiters studying the Red Planet from space. Scientists say the discovery of siderite, a type of ...

as part of the Mars 2020 mission’s search for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. The rover is collecting core samples of Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and soil) for possible ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has found iron-rich carbonates on Mars, offering new clues about the planet's ancient climate and potential habitability. While slowly climbing the slopes of Mount Sharp ...