On Earth, dense snow and ice often melts from the inside out. When dust particles are embedded in the frozen water, they can ...

Billionaire entrepreneur and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson who nearly 40 years ago created history by becoming the first person to cross the Atlantic ...

Scientists have been searching for life on the red planet for decades, and now they're honing their sights on a series of ...

Could microbes endure just beneath the surface of Mars, in exposed layers of dusty ice? Scientists say such places are worth checking out.

We believe that dusty Martian ice exposures in the mid-latitudes represent the most easily accessible places to search for Martian life today.' ...

One of the most arid places on earth, the Sahara Desert, is experiencing a dramatic turn of events and witnessed severe ...

The spacecraft succeeded where many had failed, peering Venus’ suffocating clouds to showing us the planet’s face for the ...

"These pockets of water on our planet are often teeming with simple life, including algae, fungi, and cyanobacteria," the ...

This 2014 satellite photo shows a cloud of haze sitting in the Kashmir Valley in the Himalayas. The ethereal "lake" consists ...

Want to understand how interconnected our planet is—how patterns and events in one place can affect life half a world away?

NASA has shared a short video showing how astronauts aboard the International Space Station get their daily coffee fix.The ...

NASA cleared its next astronaut flight to the International Space Station for launch on Friday (Sept. 27), a weekend liftoff that will help return two Boeing Starliner astronauts home and break in ...