Marissa Tremblay, an assistant professor in the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Department, and Ryan Ickert, a ...

Was Mars a much more habitable planet billions of years ago? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes ...

An Alabama woman made history 70 years ago Saturday when she survived a close encounter with a piece of falling space debris. Ann Hodges, 34, was napping on her couch in Oak Grove, near Sylacauga, on ...

Was alien life in "hot water" on Mars billions of years ago? New evidence from the Martian meteorite "Black Beauty" suggests ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Emily Kwong and Jessica Yung of Short Wave about ancient evidence of hot water on Mars, indigenous people's cultivation of hazelnuts, and an inauspicious fish sighting.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has long promised to make humanity interplanetary by establishing a permanent outpost on Mars. With the ...

A zircon crystal from a Martian meteorite unlocks secrets of a water-rich, dynamic Mars 4.45 billion years ago.

Researchers have discovered potentially the oldest evidence of hot water activity on Mars through the analysis of a 4.45 ...

The earliest known direct evidence of hot water activity on Mars has been found, pointing to the possibility that the planet ...

Water is ubiquitous on Earth—about 70% of Earth's surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface and ...

In 1931, the Lafayette meteorite was rediscovered in a drawer at Purdue University. Since then, it has become a focus for ...

Scientists have uncovered tantalizing evidence suggesting that Mars may have hosted hot springs some 4.5 billion years ago, ...