With global hunger and environmental crises, our focus needs to be on Earth, our “cradle,” as the Quran puts it.

Kellie Gerardi of Jupiter, is her own kind of astronaut, one who marries science and sparkle and who wants to show other ...

"Starman" peels away the layers of our cynicism to connect us with the feeling we had when space beheld a mystery that felt ...

Following the 7-planet alignment, Mars will be visible in the sky in March. Here's everything you need to know about this ...

Mars, its surface marked by canals ... traces our century-long fear and desire to make contact with life from outer space, it does so with a winking acknowledgement of how much this fundamentally ...

The most significant change since those 1970's experiments were conducted was the discovery of high levels of perchlorate on Mars. Perchlorate, plus abiotic oxidants, explains the Viking results and ...

Texas celebrates girls in STEM in March—the Frontiers of Flight Museum partners with NASA year-round to inspire and educate.

A growing cohort of tech billionaires is focused on etching their imprints on extraterrestrial realms. Elon Musk wants to ...

"With Mars sample return on the horizon and the ... discussion of sample return or astronaut return from Mars. "The Outer Space Treaty prohibits 'adverse changes in the environment of the Earth ...

Within the next decade, space agencies plan to bring samples of rock from Mars to Earth for study. Of concern is the possibility these samples contain life, which could have unforeseen consequences.

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and ...