A colony of an Aspergillus fungus growing in a petri dish. (sarahlai/iNaturalist/CC BY-NC 4.0) The next mission to Mars could ...

Federal investigators are expanding a review into unexplained deaths and disappearances of U.S. scientists tied to sensitive defense and space research, while NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has identified more organic compounds as scientists investigate any potential ancient life signs on ...

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Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently confirmed NASA ...

HOUSTON—NASA is assembling an anomaly review board and attempting to reestablish communications following its Dec. 6 loss of contact with the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft.

A party hat-shaped object spotted on Mars is drawing renewed scrutiny, with some experts suggesting it could be evidence of something major while others offered a trashy explanation for the cone. The ...

Scientists have thought for a long time that Mars used to have water on it like lakes and rivers. But new research shows that ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in December 2025 after more than a decade of operation. A solar conjunction, where Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the sun, has temporarily ...