The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

There are many obstacles to overcome before humans can set foot on Mars, including problems surrounding launch mass and ...

A pipe dream or a scam to enrich himself further? Here's why scientists are skeptical of Elon Musk's dream for humans to colonize Mars.

“One of the goals [of astrobiology] is to go to [other worlds] and look for microorganisms, but in the meantime there’s so ...

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

Spotting one or two of the planets in our solar system is well worth a good skywatch, but seeing (almost) all of them in a ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Whether President Donald Trump still supports returning astronauts to the lunar surface remains to be seen, but one thing is ...