The U.S. space agency and the Department of Energy will work together to build a fission reactor on the lunar surface in the ...

The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

Learning doesn’t always mean flipping through heavy textbooks or sitting in a long lecture. Sometimes, it just takes ...

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

A study by scientists at Penn State and NASA shows that intact biomolecules from dormant microbes break down much more slowly ...

In a new study, terrestrial bacteria-infecting viruses were still able to infect their E. coli hosts in near-weightless ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study.

"Understanding how spaceflight impacts the human brain is crucial as space exploration and tourism expand," a ...

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

Scientists may have finally cracked a decades-old mystery about the Moon’s uneven surface. A new analysis of dust collected ...

In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...