You too can learn to farm on Mars
One particular challenge is scientists have little idea of what Martian soil is actually like, he said. Probes have detected little carbon,...
The Youngest Crater on Charon
Charon's Young Ammonia Crater. The informally named Organa crater (shown in green) is rich in frozen ammonia and - so far -...
Russia Eyes Moon for Hi-Tech Lunar Base
File image. More than four decades after humans last walked on the moon, Russian space agency Roscosmos is sending a...
Spacecraft Discovers Thousands of Doomed Comets
The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory has discovered more than 3000 doomed comets that have passed close to the sun. Watch a...
Scientists Predict that Rocky Planets Formed from “Pebbles”
Southwest Research Institute scientists developed a new process in planetary formation modeling that explains the size and mass difference between the...
Between the Ears: International Space Station Examines the Human Brain
Space experiment Virtual aboard the International Space Station. Image courtesy Roscosmos. For a larger version of this image please go here. For...
High-Tech Methods Study Bacteria on the International Space Station
The International Space Station. Image courtesy NASA. Where there are people, there are bacteria, even in space. But what kinds...
Preparing for Alien Life
Dec 01, 2014illustration only At a recent event sponsored by NASA and the Library of Congress, a group of scientists and...
Earth’s magnetic field could flip within a human lifetime
Left to right, Biaggio Giaccio, Gianluca Sotilli, Courtney Sprain and Sebastien Nomade sitting next to an outcrop in the Sulmona basin of...