IISc’s Aloke Kumar has led groundbreaking research around space habitation. In 2020, his lab developed ‘space bricks’ using ...

The first time you may have heard the term ‘dwarf planet’ was when Pluto got demoted to one in 2006 (RIP). However, we actually have six in our Solar System. Pluto, Ceres, Makemake, Haumea, and Eris ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently exploring the rugged, red terrain of Mars, has sent back a striking image of the planet’s rocky landscape, igniting excitement and curiosity among space enthusiasts ...

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has announced that the company’s massive Starship rocket is set to begin its journey to ...

These gases — composed of carbon, hydrogen, and a halogen, like chlorine — are mostly made by bacteria, algae, fungi, and ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover is tirelessly exploring Mars and recently overcame a rocky challenge to collect another valuable ...

The water-rich iron mineral ferrihydrite may be the main culprit behind Mars's reddish dust, rather than the dry, rust-like mineral known as hematite.

NASA’s Perseverance rover found pale rocks containing kaolinite on Mars, a mineral that forms in warm, wet conditions.

Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Artist's concept of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794. Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez ...

Robert Zubrin, the planet’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars, predicts SpaceX’s Starship will win the race to ...