The most significant change since those 1970's experiments were conducted was the discovery of high levels of perchlorate on Mars. Perchlorate, plus abiotic oxidants, explains the Viking results and ...

When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...

These rocks turned out to contain a mineral called kaolinite, which on Earth forms in warm, rainy environments or near hot ...

Rayme Traub, a Sherrard native and NASA engineer, helped design the Europa Clipper probe. On Saturday, the probe will undergo ...

However, NASA isn’t ready to say goodbye just yet, and is taking measures to get as much life out of the pair as possible. On ...

We know for a fact, for instance, that rocky planets ... of life there, and at one point it even issued a so-called Exoplanet Exploration Program Charter. Furthermore, in 2016 NASA decided to ...

Sometimes scientists must dig and work and sweat to make scientific discoveries. And sometimes a robot rolls over a rock that ...

NASA’s OSIRIS ... look like. There are competing hypotheses on how life arose on Earth. One is that that life’s building blocks were delivered on or in meteorites. The other is that those ...

According to the calculations run by Ozaki and Reinhard, the oxygen-rich habitable history of Earth could end up lasting for ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific evidence at a record pace. Yet the age-old question remains unanswered: are we ...

A new study conducted using existing data on Mars points to ferrihydrite, a substance that forms in the presence of water, ...