Scientists say that the unpretentious moss, which grows in the Mojave Desert and Antarctica, will be able to take root on ...

Standing on the top of Mount Everest, a person can literally look at places where plants and animals happily grow and live and reproduce ... of lichen you send to Mars was going to transform Frozen ...

Researchers have recreated the bizarre spider-like features seen on the surface of Mars for the first time ever. The ...

The Kieffer model, the researchers concluded, was an accurate representation of the processes that produce, not just the ...

Newly released images of Mars reveal a "smiley" salt deposit on ... These deposits are particularly important because they "can provide optimal conditions for biological activity and preservation ...

On Mars, conditions get so cold that carbon dioxide freezes into ice – something that doesn't happen in nature here on Earth, where it can be made under special conditions and is known as dry ice.

China’s historic attempt to bring samples from Mars to Earth could launch as soon as 2028, two years earlier than previously stated, according to a senior mission official. The country’s ...

An curved arrow pointing right. SpaceX launched the Polaris Dawn mission with two SpaceX engineers, a former Air Force pilot and the billionaire who funded the private spaceflight. More from News ...

The deposits are the remains of a long-ago dried-up ancient body of water, which left behind the emoji-life remnant that is ...

In searching for potential dangers humans would face on a long Mars mission, scientists are leaving ... of salts and materials such as calcium—can form in this essential organ.