To study Mars’s chemical and mineral makeup, the Curiosity rover drills one to 1.5 inches down into the subsurface, then ...

Physicists at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a compact laser that ...

That carbon dioxide and water should have reacted with Martian rocks to create carbonate minerals. But rover missions and near-infrared spectroscopy analysis from Mars-orbiting satellites have not yet ...

Here's where the James Webb Space Telescope comes in. Its advanced technology, including its large mirror and suite of specialized instruments, allows it to detect very faint emissions coming from ...

Stormtracker 16 Meteorologist Jeremy Lewan interviewed a NASA scientist to break down what we may be able to learn from two ...

Scientists using NASA’s Curiosity rover have discovered siderite—an iron carbonate—in the sulfate-rich rocks of Gale Crater, ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover sees its tracks receding into the distance at a site nicknamed "Ubajara" on April 30, 2023. This ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera ... "Since the Earth's atmosphere has a lot of carbon dioxide, [it] blocks a large amount of light at this wavelength." ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...

Astronomers detected potential biosignatures on exoplanet K2-18b, but findings remain inconclusive. Claims of alien life ...

These atmospheric markers have positioned K2-18b as one of the most promising candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life. The planet, which orbits within the habitable zone of its red dwarf ...