NASA highlights some of the discoveries it has made on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

In geology terms, a clast is just a word for a small rock fragment stuck inside a bigger rock. Finding clasts isn't ...

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April 2026 events: immersive dome shows, Easter family activities, lectures, and exhibitions celebrating space and astronomy.

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Decades of exploration have transformed our understanding of Mars, from Viking landers to the rovers Perseverance and ...

NASA lost contact with its MAVEN Mars orbiter in December 2025 after more than a decade of operation. A solar conjunction, where Mars and Earth are on opposite sides of the sun, has temporarily ...

The public could be frightened or skeptical. A lot depends on how scientists announce it—if they ever find life in space.

Mars may have been a "blue planet" with an ocean the size of today's Arctic Ocean, a new study suggests.

I’m forever grateful to NASA for giving me an amazing 10 years. After four to five years in astrophysics, I was able to go to ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a coral-shaped rock on Mars. Though not alive, its shape reveals clues about the planet’s geology. Small discoveries like this help scientists decode Mars’ ancient past ...