The former director of NASA's Ames Research Center was the first head of the Mars exploration program in the US and has ...

Andy Weir's bestselling story "The Martian" predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars three times, perfected return-to-Earth flight systems and collaborated with the China National ...

Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of ...

Curiosity has reached a long-anticipated and visually complex Martian terrain that may hold “boxwork” formations — intricate ...

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...

On Friday evening, science communicator and former NASA engineer Mark Rober shared with a full crowd at Memorial Auditorium ...

Preserved’ Honey and Waffle Patterns on the Martian Planet For the last 13 years, the Curiosity Rover has shared a lot of ...

A surprise solar storm turned a NASA simulation into a real-world space weather crisis. As the Gannon geomagnetic storm ...

Midland elementary students recently reached for the stars through the Astrobiology STEM Activation Program (ASAP).

Precipitation, to be clear, includes any variant – not just water, but snow or freezing rain and other forms of water falling ...

On May 12, weather-station equipment on NASA's Curiosity rover (pictured 2021) recorded a high temperature of 11 degrees ...

Getting a probe to the icy giant planets takes some time—a journey to Uranus could take as long as 13 years, even with a gravity assist from Jupiter. However, several ideas are in the works to speed ...