"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

N ASA is planning a pretty neat experiment for later this year, setting deliberate fires whilst on the surface of the Moon, ...

Tiny lab-grown replicas of human tissue are helping scientists understand what deep space really does to the body.

A NASA rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before ...

NASA has uncovered major new clues on Mars that could point to alien life. The space agency’s rover has found chemicals on ...

Outer space is an inhospitable frontier. Astronauts are not only cut off from gravity but also from all the resources ancient explorers took for granted, especially oxygen. Sure, you can grow fruit in ...

NASA engineers have made a crucial decision to extend the life of Voyager 1, humanity’s farthest-reaching spacecraft, by ...

NASA has launched an intriguing experiment, sending 'organ chips'—tiny lab-grown human tissue replicas—into space to study ...

Almost seven decades of humans in space, plus over 25 years of continuous habitation, have shown us how incredibly adaptable ...