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

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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 ...

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Asteroids are remnants of the formation of our solar system, and while many can be found within the asteroid belt between the ...

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but ...

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 ...

ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured footage of the Mars' moon Deimos pass in front of Ganymede, Europa, Jupiter, Io and ...

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