Mars, often depicted as a barren red planet, is far from lifeless. With its thin atmosphere and dusty surface, it is an ...

Mars has an active, electrically charged surface where dust storms and spinning dust devils regularly move and reshape the ...

First light for the innovative new instrument is anticipated in 2028. Spectre — once operational — will play a key role in ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

Choose your fighter for the origin of water on Earth! Was it always here or did it come to this planet from somewhere else in ...

Which way is ‘down’ has a different answer depending on where you are on Earth, in the solar system, in our galaxy and beyond ...

The University of Freiburg is establishing a new tenure track professorship in Earth and Planetary Geodynamics at the Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, made possible by a 1.71 million euro ...

Mars once had sprawling river systems that rivaled major watersheds on Earth, and scientists have now identified the biggest ...

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to ski on another planet? Just think about how effortless it would be to link turns on Mars, which has one-third of Earth’s gravity. How might Pluto’s ...