Though seemingly an ordinary space rock, this rock, named Phippsaksla, belongs to some other planet in the solar system. Or ...

Building a civilization on Mars means escaping the lethal radiation, violent dust storms, and extreme temperature swings on the surface. Engineers now believe underground habitats are the only way to ...

This video shows how the field cricket (Gryllus campestris) produces its song by rubbing its wings together, recorded in its ...

Interest in Martian life had been spurred by a now infamous announcement from the White House lawn in 1996, when President ...

A pair of small satellites began their 2 year journey to Mars to study the red planet's magnetic field and how solar wind has stripped the atmosphere there over millions of years ...

If you need to charge your $1,000 cell phone, you can simply plug it in, or even more easily, just lay it on a charging mat.

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE ...

Astronomers say they spotted signs of a giant explosion releasing from a star beyond our solar system, one powerful enough to destroy a planet’s atmosphere.

This Thursday, Blue Origin successfully launched a pair of NASA spacecraft atop a New Glenn rocket from Florida's Cape ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study how its magnetic environment is impacted by the Sun. The mission also will help the agency prepare for future human exploration of ...

Blue Origin used its New Glenn rocket to launch twin probes that will study Mars' atmosphere and ionosphere — and then ...

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science ...