That sound you hear? It’s the United States’ leadership role in space exploration disintegrating in real time. This week, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announced it was cutting 550 jobs as ...

Blue Planet Red purports to be a documentary about Mars. The world presented by director Brian Cory Dobbs isn’t the one you and I might recognise, but it certainly has some appeal: it was home to an ...

The first images from Mars of the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have been released as NASA has gone radio silent due to the government shutdown. Glowing in the Martian sky, 3I/ATLAS was ...

Oct. 7 (UPI) --NASA and the European Space Agency are tracking the 3I/ATLAS interstellar object as it travels past Mars on its way toward the Sun and through the solar system. The object is thought to ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover caught something unusual streaking across the sky above the Red Planet. On Saturday (Oct. 4), Perseverance's Right Navigation Camera (Navcam) captured an image of a ...

Billions of years ago, Mars’ Jezero Crater held a lake fed by rivers that could have carried minerals and maybe even organic matter. On Earth, places like that are teeming with microbial life. NOVA is ...

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. Rovers on Mars have made exciting finds and ...

Recently, NASA announced that the Mars Perseverance rover has found indications that life may have at one time existed on the Red Planet. The announcement did not mark the first time the space agency ...

NASA is preparing to lock four people inside a simulated Martian outpost for more than a year. Yes, you heard that correctly. This is a very bold step that aims to mimic the challenges astronauts ...

Before humans set foot on Mars, NASA must first understand how people can survive there. In the Mars Dune Alpha mission, astronauts live inside a simulated habitat designed to mimic the challenges of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A key part of NASA’s plans for returning to the moon or visiting Mars will be predicated on advanced technology being developed at the NASA Glenn Research Center. But before the ...

NASA has officially introduced its 2025 Astronaut Candidate Class, a group of 10 individuals whittled down from a pool of over 8,000 highly qualified applicants. The group, which includes six women ...