A mission will deliver rock and soil from Mars to laboratories on Earth in the 2030s. Mars Sample Return (MSR) is led by NASA ...

Six of our solar system's planets are due to line up in our night sky in a strange phenomenon often called a "planetary parade" over the coming days, but one will temporarily disappear from view.

Two NASA rovers on Mars recently made two independent discoveries further indicating that ancient life may have once existed ...

On Earth, spherules are formed by rapid cooling of molten rock droplets during a volcanic eruption, or by the condensation of rock vaporized by a meteorite impact. Mars was once dotted with ...

Mars will have a close encounter with the moon. It comes after the Red Planet reached opposition in January. The planet positioned directly opposite the Sun, as seen from Earth. This alignment ...

Scientists analyzing pulverized rock onboard NASA's Curiosity rover have found the largest organic compounds on the red ...