A primitive ocean on Mars held more water than Earth’s Arctic Ocean, according to NASA scientists who, using ground-based observatories, measured Mars water signatures in the Red Planet’s atmosphere. Scientists…

(NASA) – How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and to date…

(NASA) –  Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected…

(NASA) – Observations by NASA’s Curiosity Rover indicate Mars’ Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This interpretation of…

If you have not heard of it the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, has been listening for decades now for a hint of a radio broadcast from outside our…

(NASA, STSci) – A team of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have made the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a planet orbiting another star, revealing…

(NASA) – Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have gone looking for water vapor in the atmospheres of three planets orbiting stars similar to the Sun — and have come…

(NASA) – At the Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) a team of astronomers from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) announced that they have discovered a new type of…