Nasa's Perseverance rover has completed five years on Mars and received a new autonomous navigation system. This technology allows the rover to pinpoint its location without help from Earth.

Mars presents one of the strangest sights in the solar system: a blue-tinted Sun setting against a red sky. This episode ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover captures video of solar eclipse on Mars. The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the Red Planet’s two moons, to study how its orbit is changing over time.

In 2024, NASA awarded Rocket Lab another contract to study alternative concepts for the Mars Sample Return, which aimed to bring samples collected by the Perseverance rover back to Earth. That mission ...

Astrobiologists say we could find evidence of microbial life within the next 10–20 years. What does that mean? Where are we ...

Yellowstone’s predators battle it out, one of the earliest veggie-eaters found in Nova Scotia, COVID is disappearing in animals and how genes affect our lifespan.

The exploration of space continues to progress through calculated risks and with accurate science. The Curiosity rover of NASA has begun a rather uncommon experiment on the opposite of Earth, the Mars ...

Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what ...

Researchers examine technologies and strategies for closed-loop water systems to support long-duration Moon and Mars missions, focusing on efficiency, durability, and resource recovery.

NASA announced today (Feb. 20) that it’s targeting March 6 for the liftoff of Artemis 2, which will be the first crewed mission to go beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 back in 1972.