The tests also revealed that the ditches only develop on dunes with very fine, evenly sized sand grains. Coarser or more jagged material prevents the burrowing motion, which could explain why the ...

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...

If life ever existed on Mars, traces of it might still be frozen beneath the planet's icy surface.

A study led by NASA and Penn State researchers has shown that organic molecules could endure for tens of millions of years ...

Peggy Hollinger Trump’s 21st-century frontier: the planet Mars. As the cameras panned across the assembled politicians and ...

CO₂ ice blocks on Mars may dig gullies as they slide and sublimate in the thin atmosphere. In lab experiments, scientists recreated these eerie, worm-like movements under Martian conditions. The ...

We're just weeks away from this interstellar visitor reaching its brightest in Earth's night skies. Will we see it?

A plan for astronauts to live on the Moon inside 'lunar glass' domes, created by California-based Skyeports, is now being ...

More layoffs are hitting JPL, the NASA research lab near Pasadena. People will begin getting their notices on Tuesday, Oct.

SpaceX's Starship, which could help humans land on the moon and Mars, completed another successful flight after launching ...

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and is responsible for the building and ...

SpaceX's next version of Starship will be even bigger and more advanced than any iteration that has already launched 11 times ...