Hidden among the majestic canyons of the Utah desert, about 7 miles from the nearest town, is a small research facility meant ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth?

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Collier Memorial State Park is like that friend who has multiple talents but never brags about any of them. This park ...

Our two-person team loaded the car with a GPS, a drone, notebooks, sample bags, a trowel and a flat spatula lovingly called a ...

UChicago-led analysis of Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover data may explain why planet was likely harsh desert for most ...

NASA images reveal shallow ice beneath Mars’s surface, offering a promising water source for future astronauts and clues to past life.

In just 15 years' time, the European Space Agency hopes humans will live in huge 'space oases' on Mars - luxury indoor habitats made of heat-reflective material that grow their own food.

Spanish moss can hang from just about anything, but it seems particularly fond of live oaks and cypress trees — themselves symbols of the South. Several feet of moss can hang from a tree limb.