WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — To survive on other planets, water is, of course, critical. We need it to drink, sustain crops and even create rocket fuel. But on spaceflights, checked luggage is exorbitantly ...

One of the challenges of sending human explorers to Mars is that, due to the logistics of the journey, they will have to be on the planet’s surface for considerably longer than the missions of a few ...

Astronomers hunting for water on alien planets have a new tool in their arsenal. This comes in the form of a water-hunting technique that uses an exoplanet's size to estimate how much of this vital ...

A new analysis of seismic data from NASA’s Mars InSight mission has revealed a couple of surprises. The first surprise: the top 300 meters of the subsurface beneath the landing site near the Martian ...

The Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector (GRaND) aboard NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is mapping the elemental composition of Ceres in a low altitude orbit, about 240 miles (385 kilometers) above the surface of ...

Narrowing down the location of buried ice on Mars could help the space agency decided where to land its astronauts on future missions. Reading time 3 minutes A new map of subsurface water on Mars just ...

Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of ...

"Just as getting rock samples can provide clues to Mars' early history, ice will give us clues to Mars' recent history." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...