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

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

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.

While actual evidence for life on Mars has never been found, a new NASA study proposes microbes could find a potential home ...

Researchers think meltwater beneath Martian ice could support microbial life. While actual evidence for life on Mars has ...

Olympus Mons, Mars' immense shield volcano, towers 21 kilometers above its surface, dwarfing Earth's Mount Everest. Covering ...

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

Hard-to-reach national parks, UNESCO World Heritage sites, and remote fishing villages become accessible to travelers on a ...

Unpopulated and in the middle of nowhere, Point Nemo is starting to have a history. This article appears in the November 2024 ...

The world’s most powerful rocket launched on another daring test flight from the SpaceX Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas Sunday.