Every day feels brighter with a golden retriever around. The calm moments never stay calm for very long once the excitement ...

NASA's Mars Maven spacecraft has been declared dead after six months of radio silence. Maven was launched in 2013 to study ...

The space agency announced that the MAVEN spacecraft, which has circled Mars for more than a decade, is being decommissioned. By Katrina Miller On Wednesday, NASA announced the end of a more than ...

See Rocket Lab's "proposed mission architecture" for a Mars sample return mission in this animation. Credit: Rocket Lab ...

Valles Marineris is an enormous rift valley system on Mars that scientists want to scour for traces of liquid water, which ...

The space agency outlined the first phase of its moon base plans on Tuesday, awarding hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

The space agency plans to establish a camp near the lunar South Pole which will support humans living and working there. | ...

Space tourism is still costly and challenging, but an inspirational visit to America's great aviation and space museums and ...

Some animals can move efficiently beneath granular surfaces. These include the sandfish (Scincus scincus), a lizard native to the Sahara. It can burrow into the sand and then literally "swim" through ...

Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.

While it has enabled many exciting discoveries, the Curiosity rover has also encountered its share of setbacks. The latest left NASA engineers speechless. On April 25, the Mars rover drilled into a ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 14 years. See a new timelapse showing six years of wear and tear on its wheels.