A strange, tentacled object that went viral online was revealed to be a space-grown purple potato. Astronaut Don Pettit ...

Are we on the brink of discovering extraterrestrial life? Exciting revelations from Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus and Mars have ignited hopes of finding biological activity beyond Earth. NASA’s recent ...

Scientists have long thought there are a series of pyramid-like structures on Mars, with recent images showing one that could ...

New clues found underneath Jezero Crater.

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Elon Musk has repeatedly emphasized that no matter how financially successful SpaceX may be, the company will have failed in his eyes if the primary objective – the colonization of Mars – is not ...

NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has been exploring a curious geological formation made up of ridges up to six feet in height for the last six months. Scientists theorize that the “boxwork” formations were ...

When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced a pivot from Mars to the moon, one detail of his plan caused eyebrows to raise. Musk plans to build something called a mass driver on the lunar surface to deploy AI ...

For centuries, humans have looked to the night sky searching for answers about the universe—and their place within it. For star astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, that instinct to explore remains one ...

A gray powder that looks like ash can become something closer to stone when hit with the right beam of light. Engineers have shown that simulated lunar soil can be melted and layered into solid shapes ...