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Interstellar Influenza? Space Viruses Could Reveal Alien Life
January 24, 2018 | ArticleYou probably think about viruses only when you're sick, but there's a group of microbiologists who want to change that. In fact, they want you to consider the possibility that viruses may be found in space.
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Huge Glaciers Found Hiding Beneath Mars Surface
January 12, 2018 | ArticleThe newfound sheets are buried by just a few feet of Martian dirt in some places, meaning it might be accessible to future crewed missions.
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Curiosity Rover Spots Weird Tube-Like Structures on Mars
January 06, 2018 | ArticleNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found intriguing structures on Mars that look like tiny, fossilized worm burrows — but mission team members aren't claiming that the finds are evidence of life.
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Why This Explosive, Mars-Like Volcanic Island Fascinates NASA
December 12, 2017 | ArticleLife on Mars may have looked a lot like Tonga.
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The Next Giant Leap: US Will Return to the Moon, Pence Says
October 05, 2017 | ArticleThe Trump administration is committed to sending astronauts to the moon as part of a broader push to prioritize human spaceflight and firm up U.S. dominance in the final frontier, Vice President Mike Pence said.
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SpaceX's Elon Musk, Lockheed Martin Announcing Updated Mars Plans Tonight
September 28, 2017 | ArticleTonight (Sept. 28), SpaceX and Lockheed Martin will unveil their latest plans for getting people to Mars.
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Do Other Planets Have Solar Eclipses?
August 05, 2017 | ArticleAs Earthlings, we have the privilege of ooohing and aaahing at total solar eclipses, those celestial events in which the moon blocks the sun's light from hitting our planet. But is Earth the only world in our solar system that experiences this phenomenon?
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Want to Protect Earth from Aliens? NASA Is Hiring
August 02, 2017 | ArticleNASA is looking to hire a planetary protection officer, a person who will lead the agency's efforts to keep its spacecraft from contaminating worlds with life-forms that don't belong there.
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Weird 'Rocks' at Robotics Test Site Turn Out to Be Dinosaur Fossils
July 31, 2017 | ArticleStudents searching for a Mars-like landscape in a Canadian park took an unexpected detour into paleontology.
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Future Space Colony? Maybe We Should Look Beyond Mars to Saturn's Titan Moon
July 19, 2017 | ArticleInstead of just sending humans on a one-shot mission to look for life on the surface, a new paper envisions a future outpost on Titan that could generate power for years.
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