"The detection of life on Mars is a persistent top priority for explorers of many disciplines, and it is the top science ...

For the first time, scientists have mapped vast, continent-scale river drainage systems on Mars — ancient networks that may ...

"This Week in Space" hosts Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss a weird rock that was spotted on the Red Planet by NASA's ...

A pair of NASA spacecraft know as the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) to be launched to Mars by a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket. ESCAPADE will study how the "solar wind ...

As the world's largest radio/radar telescope when it was commissioned in 1963, the Arecibo Observatory saw countless firsts, from revealing the ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

In 2005, researchers at the University of Tokyo proposed that some elements from Earth's upper atmosphere might have escaped ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

NASA is assessing a troubling loss of signal from a Mars orbiter that has spent the last 11 years gathering data on how the ...

Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Dec. 13 with free admission and a special exhibit on its history.