Scientists detect water sloshing on Mars. There could be a lot.
A pioneering NASA robot detected over a thousand quakes on Mars. It also may have revealed a huge reservoir of water. Planetary scientists used unprecedented...
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A pioneering NASA robot detected over a thousand quakes on Mars. It also may have revealed a huge reservoir of water. Planetary scientists used unprecedented...
Mars didn’t lose all its water without a fight. The planet, today 1,000 times drier than the driest desert on Earth, gradually lost its insulating...
If you’re close to the U.S.-Canadian border tonight, you’re in luck. The Northern Lights may be sticking around a little longer, giving you another opportunity...
There’s supposedly nothing special about a blue moon. A full moon is just a moon phase, and a blue moon is just a designation for...
Black holes are misunderstood. They’re almost inconceivably dense objects, which grants them immense gravitational power. (If Earth was hypothetically crushed into a black hole, it...
Perhaps surprisingly, the majority of stars in the galaxy are not sun clones but smaller orbs of gas and plasma known as red dwarfs, about...
Somewhere in the galaxy, an advanced alien civilization might harness energy from its star. And NASA wants to know if it could detect this activity....
Mercury is a little-known, still mysterious world. But one thing is certain. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, can’t actually travel backward in retrograde,...
A pair of U.S. astronauts who test-piloted a new Boeing spaceship in June may not fly home on the craft they rode in on. While...
Long ago, Mars teemed with water. New imagery captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter depicts the planet’s once watery past. The spacecraft,...