President Donald Trump’s single reference to space in his second inaugural address Monday pointed in an unexpected direction. In his prepared remarks, Trump, a longtime backer of U.S.-led space ...

Researchers have documented 55 instances of "mini lightning" over two Martian years by eavesdropping on the whirling wind ...

A NASA rover has recorded evidence of lightning on Mars for the first time, its microphone picking up the sounds of tiny ...

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The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. Here are some of the most baffling. When you purchase through links on our ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been tootling across the martian surface since 2012, its lofty quest to determine if Mars ever had environmental conditions suitable for microbial life. While it’s already ...

New research indicates that early Martian volcanoes may have emitted reactive sulfur gases that warmed the planet and supported conditions suitable for microbial life. Although scientists are still ...

If you followed news about either the media industry or space exploration back in 2021, you probably remember when the New York Times accidentally published a story claiming that watermelons had been ...