Scientists have long puzzled over why Mars, once protected by a global magnetic field like Earth, now shows only a magnetic ...

Tutolo led a new study of rock samples collected by the Curiosity rover that might have answered this question. The mystery ...

Astronomers have made a detection suggesting biosignatures, or signs of biological activity, on an exoplanet located 124 ...

Traveling 19 hours and 4,500 miles to shower in the desert next to a volcano? Yeah, I'd say that would do the trick. That's ...

To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

The scientist further noted that Russia is entirely self-sufficient in space-related activities, but that the country had lost "its launch capabilities and many other assets," because the rest of the ...

A distant ocean-covered world, teeming with life. That's the most likely explanation for a new discovery made by scientists ...

Mars' magnetic mystery may finally have a solution—scientists now think the Red Planet’s ancient magnetic field only existed ...

In a nutshell Mars likely never developed a solid inner core during its early history, meaning its magnetic field was generated by a fully molten core, unlike Earth’s layered core structure. This ...