Tests conducted with tardigrades suggest that there is something in Martian dirt that dramatically reduces biological ...

There is another way forward. A circular economy for space applies the same principles that aims to transform modern waste policy on Earth. This means designing products to last and keep them in ...

After a decade without releasing a solo studio album, Bruno Mars finally returns to the scene with “The Romantic,” a project that, while initially engaging, falters on the back-half of the venture.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

Hardy bacteria in a lab survived pressures comparable to an asteroid strike on the red planet, suggesting a hypothetical scenario in which our planet was seeded with life.

The solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago from a condensed nebula, and with it our planet Earth, which was a ball ...

Thirty Seconds to Mars surprise fans with two songs that reconnect the band with its early emotional sound and introspective ...

Sifting through 180,000 observations, the team found a single event. We may have detected a whistler wave on the Red Planet.

A famously resilient bacterium may be tough enough to survive one of the most violent events imaginable on Mars. In ...

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life ...

While sifting through the extensive data collected by NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft over the last decade, scientists discovered a familiar type of electromagnetic ...

Presented in partnership with the Physics and Astronomy Club, three planetarium shows were open to the public for free on Friday in the Physics Hall.   The projected images on the domed ceiling showed ...