November's Sky Above episode features a supermoon, meteor shower, and interstellar comet, with experts discussing these ...

The launch of Perseverance marked the start of a mission designed to uncover signs of ancient life on Mars. ‘Multiple people’ stabbed on train Experts link widely taken medicine to faster decline in ...

Deep within a region dubbed Sapphire Canyon, NASA’s Perseverance rover uncovered mineral veins and sediment patterns that hint at long-lost water — and possibly life. Tropical Storm Melissa spaghetti ...

As predicted, interstellar object 3I/ATLAS came within spitting distance of the surface of Mars as it continued blazing its path through the solar system. The mysterious object, widely believed to be ...

NASA's Perseverance rover took this selfie in May 2025. The Navcam used to capture the apparent comet images is located just below the large white camera at the top of the mast. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS ...

Recently, NASA announced that the Mars Perseverance rover has found indications that life may have at one time existed on the Red Planet. The announcement did not mark the first time the space agency ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring Mars' Jezero Crater since 2021 with the primary objective to investigate the environments that could have supported life in the past on the Red Planet. In ...

"The results reported here can be crucial when down-selecting which samples, if not all, are returned to Earth." Only a little over a week after scientists announced NASA's Perseverance rover may have ...

NASA's Curiosity rover took advantage of a clear winter day to snap new panoramic pictures of one of Mars' most enduring mysteries. A lookout point in the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Roger Wiens has been a Mars explorer since he was 11 years old. He grew up as a kid looking through a telescope at The Red Planet with his brother and sketching its features. “That was ...

Ari Koeppel previously received funding from NASA science grants. He is affiliated with The Planetary Society. Any views represented in this article are those of the author. The budget cuts do not ...

A recent analysis of the Sapphire Canyon mudstone core, drilled by NASA’s Perseverance rover in July 2024, adds new and convincing evidence to the ongoing search for life on Mars. The study describes ...