A huge solar storm struck Mars in 2024, supercharging its upper atmosphere and briefly disrupting spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet.

Explore how Mars rover AutoNav and TRN lunar landing technologies advance autonomous spacecraft navigation, enabling self-guided, human-free space missions across Mars, the Moon, and beyond.

When it comes to humanity, Earth is considered humans’ original birthplace. But a new radical theory not only upends this long-standing view about the humans’ origin but also deepens ...

The concept of terraforming Mars has long captured the imagination of scientists, engineers, and space enthusiasts. The idea of transforming the Red Planet into a habitable environment is an alluring ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

Today, the planet Mars presents itself as a cold, arid desert, but its soil retains the imprint of a far more welcoming past. Meandering valleys and water-altered minerals attest to a period when ...

Scientists simulated an asteroid impact, and Deinococcus radiodurans’ cell membranes made it through. This suggests that life-forms flung into space by violent impacts may have colonized planets and ...

Cornell students reflect on the Artemis program seeking to return astronauts to the Moon and establish a sustained scientific presence there.

A recent bill passed in Congress has lead to an additional two years of service being added to the International Space Station ...

It was the year 1961 when two helicopter pilot lieutenants, Don Roe and John Hickey, were flying over the western end of ...

Scientists are scrambling to explain why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is carrying life's chemical building blocks at concentrations never before seen, and it makes its final pass through our cosmic n ...