In a bold step toward sustainable space travel, scientists are engineering a radically small, protein-rich rice that can grow ...

Might sinuous ridges carved out across the ancient highlands of Mars hold the secret to a vanished age of rivers and rain on the Red Planet? Over 15,000 kilometers of such fluvial sinuous ridges, or ...

Dark “slope streaks,” likely resulting from dust avalanches, stretch across an area of Mars called Acheron Fossae in this ...

Italian confectioner Ferrero, known for brands like Nutella and Kinder, is buying the century-old U.S. cereal company WK ...

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the ...

Curiosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like ...

Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future ...

The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Researchers at Harvard University have made an exciting discovery that could change the future of space colonization. In an ...

Scientists developed living materials that turn Martian dust into structures using synthetic lichens. This innovation enables ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting environments for long stretches in the ancient past, a new study suggests.