While scouring a 50-million-year-old crater on Mars, the Curiosity rover stumbled upon a polygon-shaped pattern that sort of looks like a giant reptile had shed its skin across the planet’s surface.

On Thursday, NASA issued a Request for Proposal (RFP), seeking industry collaboration for the Mars Telecommunications Network ...

NASA's Curiosity rover uncovered critical new samples, including a series of compounds planetary scientists consider building blocks for the origin of life on Earth ...

Here's why these new results are so encouraging for scientists.

Do aliens exist? Could Earth really be the only planet hosting intelligent life? Debates over the existence of extraterrestrials date back to the earliest Indigenous and western thought. The tools ...