Doctoral student and soil scientist Harrison Coker tests plant growth in microgravity aboard the International Space Station.

A Brown University researcher helps to lead the science team for NASA’s HiRISE camera, which caught images of the comet as it streaked past Mars.

A University of Arizona-led team has used a camera orbiting Mars to capture the closest images yet of a rare interstellar ...

NASA agreed to rebook the Escapade satellites on NG-2 after managers with the principal investigator-led science mission devised a so-called “launch and loiter” strategy that would free Blue Origin ...

As the search for life on Mars continues – with promising potential biosignatures recently identified by NASA at the Bright ...

Strange, sinuous gullies etched into the dunes of Mars are finally giving up their secrets. These gouges, new experiments reveal, are carved by the explosive sublimation of dry ice, burrowing down the ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) -- The idea of putting a man on the moon was a revolutionary proposal in 1961-- that ambitious goal was achieved in 1969. The last person to go to the moon was 46 years ago ...

As the White House accelerates plans for a 2026 crewed mission to Mars, Georgia Tech experts highlight the engineering, scientific, and diplomatic challenges that will shape the success—and ...

HONOLULU (AP) - Researchers who have spent nearly four months simulating what it's like to live on Mars are emerging from their experiment on a barren Hawaii lava field. The NASA-funded study is ...

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One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at its closest point to Earth in its orbit, and Hall had one question on his ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic ...