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For years, scientists have been looking for signs of liquid water just beneath the surface of Mars. New research recently published in Nature Communications may have dried up one of the most ...
Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...
The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting environments for long stretches in the ancient past, a new study suggests.
There's a new interstellar comet in the neighborhood! Known as 3I/ATLAS, this comet poses no threat to Earth – but it does ...
In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...
Captured by the Mars Orbiter Camera on April 8, 2001, this high-resolution view of the “Face on Mars” previously glimpsed in images from the Viking 1 Orbiter revealed the feature to be not so ...
NASA has discovered a mysterious interstellar comet entering our solar system. Learn what this strange visitor is and how scientists are tracking it now.
Look to the skies on Thursday and you can see something unusual: the ‘Moon illusion’, which happens when our satellite is low on the horizon. On July 10, the full moon will rise… but not that high, as ...
Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.
Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...