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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 ...
Scientists want to study a distant world in the solar system that is classified as a dwarf planet. But some experts think it ...
Look to the skies on Thursday night and you can see something unusual: the ‘Moon illusion’, which happens when our satellite ...
NASA has discovered a mysterious interstellar comet entering our solar system. Learn what this strange visitor is and how scientists are tracking it now.
The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a small satellite already orbiting Earth. IBEX has special instruments gathering ...
In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.
The spacecraft now almost tips upside down relative to Mars to give its radar the best view. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...