Mars

Precision dating of a single rock resolves lingering uncertainties about the Red Planet’s history

Early data from the rover teases out new details of Mars’s atmosphere and how it changed over billions of years

The Hubble Space Telescope was used to measure visible light from one of the best-studied planets outside our solar system, HD 189733 b

Researchers have found that chunks of dry ice, jetting around on cushions of gas, may be responsible for mysterious channels on the Martian surface

Around 250 million years ago animals in the seas began to diversify with gusto. Remarkably, the evolution of minute plants known as phytoplankton probably powered that dramatic explosion

The Opportunity rover passed the Apollo 17 moon buggy, which covered 22.21 miles back in 1972, but the Soviet Union still holds the international record

The surface of Mars changes all the time. Is flowing water one of the causes?

In his address to the National Academy of Sciences on their 150th anniversary, Pres. Obama expressed his support for the sciences as a fundamental part of American life in today's world

Rural electrification lags far behind moribund urban electricity supply in the struggling Caribbean nation

A newborn star's iron abundance foretells whether its gas giants face a violent future

At a recent scientific conference in Los Angeles, scientists explored the possibility of Mars being habitable, or even inhabited by microbes, in the present day

New observations by NASA's Curiosity rover suggest that microbial life could have survived on Mars in the distant past