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Could Mars soil block Earth microbes? 'Water bears' off...

Tardigrades, commonly known as water bears, may be better suited by a new name: ...

Using moon dirt with 3D printing to build future lunar ...

Simulated lunar dirt can be turned into extremely durable structures, potentiall...

NASA revamps Artemis moon landing program by modeling i...

NASA said Friday it's revamping its Artemis moon exploration program to make it ...

Assessment of rare 'teenage' planetary system deepens u...

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to...

What is an exoplanet? An astrophysicist explains why th...

Scientists might have just found Earth's icy, distant cousin a few hundred light...

Curiosity takes its closest look yet at Martian spiderwebs

In this age of Mars rovers, questions about the planet's ancient past have shift...

Curiosity studies nodules on Mars boxwork formations

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovered these bumpy, pea-sized nodules while expl...

A 'Cosmic Positioning System' in the outer solar system

There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the "Hubble Tension" in cosmology....

Would Earth still be habitable without us?

Here's a thought experiment that keeps planetary scientists awake at night. Stri...

How long do civilizations last?

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend h...

MeerKAT discovers record-breaking cosmic laser halfway ...

Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered th...

The stars that lit up the early Milky Way

Imagine trying to reconstruct the history of a city by studying only its oldest ...

NASA adds mission to Artemis lunar program, updates arc...

As part of a golden age of exploration and discovery, NASA announced Friday the ...

Rare Type Icn supernova SN 2024abvb is among the most l...

An international team of astronomers has carried out photometric and spectroscop...

Get ready for the Rubin Observatory's deluge of discove...

It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first li...

NASA's MAVEN detects first evidence of lightning-like a...

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and...